A new temporary exhibit at the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium takes visitors back in time to come face-to-face with incredible ...

This large animal, which could grow up to 6 feet tall, lived in the Australian continent during the Pleistocene epoch. The saber-toothed tiger, which is also known as the smilodon, is an extinct ...

The Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium will soon debut a new Ice Age exhibit. The temporary exhibit, "Ice Age: Frozen in Time," runs ...

They also stand in three decidedly different camps regarding why America's rich complement of big animals went extinct ... changes at the end of the Pleistocene epoch triggered the collapse.

The number of animals in the Pleistocene Park in ... ecosystem similar to the one that existed in the Late Pleistocene epoch - the so-called mammoth steppe. Scientists have been introducing ...

The differences between them may be characterized as such: the science of paleoecology addresses the relationships between both plant and animal species ... This Plio-Pleistocene site is located ...

In order to create these biological time capsules, animals must die in a location ... meaning it likely lived during the latter part of the Pleistocene epoch. Needless to say, the scientific ...

Horses were the first animals brought to the Pleistocene Park back in 1996 due to the relatively low cost and availability in the region. They are the park's main pasture animal and they are most ...

several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida's Big Bend region and died. The sinkhole filled in with sediment over time, preserving the animals where they lay until ...