Hundreds of millions of Americans are presently besieged by a massive arctic blast and winter storm. Luckily for them, it ...
Hippos from Central Europe were assumed to have gone extinct around 115,000 years ago when the temperate conditions of the region transitioned into an icy one with the end of the last interglacial ...
Hippos, today restricted to sub-Saharan Africa, survived in central Europe far longer than previously assumed. Analyses of bone finds demonstrate that hippos inhabited the Upper Rhine Graben sometime ...
For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a new study is rewriting that history. Utilizing ancient DNA and reliable ...
Hippos lived at the Upper Rhine in the same time frame as mammoths. In the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen a hippo reconstruction meets a mammoth skeleton. Hippos, today restricted to sub-Saharan Africa, ...
New research shows Ice Age hunter-gatherer networks stretched across Europe, linking central Spain to France through stone ...
The last ice age did not shut down Atlantic ocean currents, and that discovery may help explain future climate risks.
Between 780,000 and 12,000 years ago, Europe’s climate swung between freezing stretches and warmer periods that allowed hippopotamuses to migrate out of Africa into Europe, where they thrived as far ...