Possible factors in the extinction of many large animals include include hunting and climate stability since the last ice age ...

Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation ...

A herd of bison has returned to Burlington Prairie in Kane County, part of a long-awaited return led by the American Indian ...

Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice age. As the planet warms, nutrient-rich runoff fuels plankton blooms that ...

Around 18,000 years ago, ice age people in what is now Ukraine likely weathered the extremely harsh climate by building parts of their shelters out of mammoth bones, a new study finds. The mammoth ...

High on a bluff above the Irtysh River in northeastern Kazakhstan, a ghost city lies just beneath the grass. From the surface you would only see low, rectangular earthen mounds. Yet under that quiet ...

Before Illinois became a state anchored by a sprawling metropolis, it was a humble prairie. Flat, yes, but that open horizon offered the perfect home for creatures big and small to graze and lope.

For Kent Rollins, the American West isn't just a backdrop — it's an ingredient. The star of the Outdoor Channel's "Cast Iron Cowboy" has spent decades preserving cowboy cooking, but his rich and fiery ...

Columbus city leaders and Columbus Division of Police leadership emphasized on Dec. 18 that police are not working with federal immigration authorities as operations appear to be increasing in the ...

DOZENS of teddy bears were tossed onto the ice after Basingstoke Bison scored their first goal on Saturday. The heart-warming tradition, dubbed the Teddy Bear Toss, returned to Planet Ice Basingstoke ...