Ancient bison done in by climate, not hunters
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Thousands of years before white and Indian hunters drove the buffalo of America&#39;s Great Plains to virtual extinction, the ancestors of those lordly animals suffered a similar fate -- but it was major climate change, not hunting, that did them in, says an
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A chart of temperature variation over 1,000 years dubbed the "hockey stick" has entered into the folklore of climate scientists, but how accurate is it?
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Blog: Mexico's Iguala Valley saw farming spread during Earth's warming after the last Ice Age.
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Purdue University researchers who set up cameras in fields to catch wild animals in the act of gobbling up crops found that deer and raccoons &#151; not wild turkeys, as many farmers believe &#151; are the greediest crop-raiders.
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Ancient bison DNA may help explain a longstanding mystery of North American wildlife: why mammoths, North American lions, short-faced bears and many other large mammals disappeared about 10,000 years ago.
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Big game hunters may be off the hook in the latest twist of a prehistoric whodunit that tries to explain why bison populations sharply crashed thousands of years ago.
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Global warming is increasingly rendering Inuit and other Arctic peoples at a loss for words. They simply do not have names in their languages for the temperate species flocking up from the south.
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WASHINGTON Nov 25, 2004 - Big game hunters may be off the hook in the latest twist of a prehistoric whodunit that tries to explain why bison populations sharply crashed thousands of years ago.
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CALGARY, Alberta - A fossilized jaw found in an Alberta gravel pit may have cleared up a mystery for researchers wondering how brown bears originally made it across North America.
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While nosing around the Quaternary mammal collection at the Provincial Museum of Alberta two years ago, Paul Matheus, a paleontologist with the Alaska Quaternary Center, came across a brown bear fossil that seemed out of place.
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Many large mammals were wiped out in the last Ice Age but the Eurasian giant deer managed to survive, scientists said on Wednesday.
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Some are challenging earlier ideas about how water naturally flows because the streams studied then were not ânatural archetypesâ but rather the artifacts of 18th and 19th century dam-building and deforestation.
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Can the long-extinct mammoth be resurrected through the alchemy of modern biology?
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The most primitive bat ever discovered could fly but not navigate by sound, scientists have reported.
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Blog: Paleontologists have found that precursors to dinosaurs weren't so rapidly replaced as previously thought.
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Ancient DNA samples show that southern Greenland was teeming with insect and plant life 450,000 years ago.
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New data casts doubt on the popular theory that big North American mammals were wiped out by human hunting.