Herds of horses, bison and reindeer could play a significant part in saving the world from an acceleration in global heating. That is the conclusion of a recent study showing how grazing herbivores ...

In a far northeastern corner of Yakutia, about 1,600 kilometers from Yakutsk, ecologist Sergei Zimov and his son Nikita have created what they call Pleistocene Park. They have turned a ...

When reindeer herders in Siberia spotted a small snout protruding from thawing ground, they were not expecting to uncover a ...

YAKUTSK, October 18. /TASS/. The number of animals in the Pleistocene Park in Yakutia's north, where experts have been recreating the mammoth steppe, may be increased from 150 to 2,000, the park's ...

Siberian locals have discovered an incredible prehistoric time capsule in what paleontologists believe is the largest ancient hyena lair ever found in Asia. The cave contained a whole menagerie of ...

One of the iconic animals of the Pleistocene era, or “Ice Age,” is the dire wolf. Named in 1858, the dire or “terrible” wolf averaged about five feet long and 150 pounds, a bit larger than the modern ...