The Latest Breaking News from Ice Age

David Attenborough was the voice of seasons 1-2 of Prehistoric Planet on Apple TV, but has been swapped out for Ice Age. Don't worry, though... this isn't a health scare.

When the fictional past meets the fictional future.

Ice Age saber-tooth cats and dire wolves suffered from arthritis, revealing common ailments with modern domesticated animals.

Today the developmental bone disease is known to affect the joints of vertebrates, including humans and various domesticated species.

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Rachel Pepper, from Chicago, in Illinois, was left with an enormous bump on the side of her head after slipping on dangerous black ice while out for a run

The sabertooth cat is an Ice Age icon and emblem of strength, tenacity and intelligence. These animals shared the North American landscape with other large carnivores, including short-faced bears, dire wolves and the American lion, as well as megaherbivores including mammoths, mastodons, muskoxen and long-horned bison. Then at the end…

Antarctica is an icy place today, but the ice extended even further during past ice ages. The question of how and where life survived on land in the icy continent, through the ages, has long puzzled biologists.

Prehistoric hunters and gatherers from various archaeological societies had their genomes studied.