The Ice Age was a world locked in endless winter, where massive glaciers crept across continents and woolly mammoths roamed ...

A 25-year-old Baird’s tapir died this week at the Bergen County Zoo, according to a Facebook post from the zoo. “Tonka” arrived at the zoo in 2003 at the age of 3 and lived five years longer than the ...

Tonka, a Baird's tapir who lived at the Bergen County Zoo for more than two decades, has died, the zoo announced this week. Tonka originally arrived in Bergen County in 2003 at age 3. In the years ...

CRAWLING ON YOUR FRONT OR BACK PORCH. WE’RE TALKING ABOUT THE WOOLY BEAR CATERPILLAR. DEFINITELY HAVE SEEN THEM. RUMOR HAS IT THAT THESE CATERPILLARS MAY HAVE SOMETHING UP THEIR SLEEVES IN TERMS OF ...

For the Indigenous Coast Salish peoples of the Pacific Northwest, woolly dogs played an extremely significant cultural and spiritual role. The Coast Salish prized the dogs for their distinctive fur, ...

Nov. 15 (UPI) --The well-preserved remains of a woolly mammoth found in Siberia enabled scientists to extract RNA for the first time and learn more about the animal. The woolly mammoth died about ...

In 2010, tusk hunters scouring a riverbank near Siberia’s Arctic coast discovered the mummy of a juvenile mammoth. The animal, nicknamed “Yuka” after the nearby village of Yukagir, had been frozen for ...

Ecuador’s northern Amazon is home to some of the most biodiverse areas on the planet, including Yasuní National Park. But ...

Scientists have made a rare and surprising discovery inside the frozen body of a young woolly mammoth. The animal, known as "Yuka," was found near Siberia's Arctic coast in 2010 and had been preserved ...

In the caterpillar world, few are as well-known as the woolly bear (sometimes known as a wooly worm). While monarchs caterpillars surpass them in name recognition, they’d take an easy second place.

Almost 40,000 years ago, a juvenile woolly mammoth died in modern-day Siberia. Today, its long-frozen remains have yielded the oldest sequences of RNA—messenger molecules that carry out genetic ...