It sounds like something out of science fiction: a plant frozen since the Ice Age coming back to life in a modern laboratory.But that’s exactly what happened in 2012 when a team of Russian scientists ...

Climate change and habitat destruction are driving species to extinction at an alarming rate. The impact extends across all ...

“Everyone knows that the woolly mammoth went extinct, but virtually no-one mentions the plants that were lost at the end of the last ice age,” says Prof Ulrike Herzschuh from the Alfred Wegener ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Welcome to July! I know it’s hot, but wasn’t it just last month we were grumbling about the gloom? Researchers say our bodies deal with high heat better after a period of acclimation, so try doing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Juniper branch and seeds from circa 50,000 years ago. (Jeanette Marantos / Los Angeles Times) At the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, ...

MOSCOW - It was an Ice Age squirrel's treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for more than 30,000 years. From the fruit tissues, a team of ...

Palo Alto, CA– When glaciers advanced over much of the Earth’s surface during the last ice age, what kept the planet from freezing over entirely? This has been a puzzle to climate scientists because ...