An Ice Age bird that weighed twice as much as an ostrich was adapted for the water, say a team of researchers who recently studied fossils from creature, which went extinct about 45,000 years ago.

From woolly mammoths to giant sloths, via some lesser-known ice-age beasts like 'killer koalas', the visuals in this ...

If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don’t know the real ice age. It was an ...

Scientists studying the remarkably well-preserved remains of an Ice Age bird have identified the specimen as a horned lark. Buried and frozen in permafrost near the village of Belaya Gora in ...

Visit Peru's Talara Tar Seeps today and you'll see a desert, but 15,000 years ago, the area was grassland and forest, roamed by dire wolves and saber-toothed cats. If you had gone for a walk in the ...

Snot bubbles may help a short-beaked echidna cool off by coating the critter’s nose with moisture, which evaporates and draws heat from a blood-filled sinus, helping to cool the blood, Elise Cutts ...

From the beaches to the prairies. From the towns and the cities. From the hills of Tallahassee, the people shout with glee, “The Florida scrub jay is the new state bird!” If only this were true. The ...

The Florida scrub jay is like a lot of Floridians; the bold bird with a bright sky-blue head and grey underbelly is descended from tourists who never left, and seemingly just wanders into political ...