These caves essentially became the perfect low-oxygen environments for bone preservation. “Typically as a paleontologist, if ...

But during the last ice age when sea levels were much lower, the caves were the high-and-dry habitat for a completely different group of animals. On one dive into a blue hole on Great Abaco Island ...

The American cave lion (Panthera atrox ... these sloths were one of the strangest animals of the ice age. They weighed as much, or more, than the short-faced bear at 1 tonne and stood 3 metres ...

Prehistoric humans painted images of the animals on cave walls and carved their likeness ... the bears particularly vulnerable to the last ice age, which began around 30,000 years ago.

The Eben Ice Caves aren’t just frozen waterfalls. They’re a physics lesson in slow motion. Each winter, water trickling through Michigan’s UP limestone creates caves made entirely of ice, forming ...

In Ice Bridge we wanted to bring this ancient Ice Age world alive by digitally recreating some of the incredible animals that roamed ... leo atrox (American Cave Lion) and the Pinguinus impennis ...