The fortuitous bounty of cyclic glacial thaws is perhaps most stunningly revealed to us in the occasional cache of well-preserved ice age mega-fauna. The latest care package hailing through deep time ...

Scientists have said that an astonishingly well-preserved cave lion cub found in Siberia's permafrost lived 28,000 years ago and may even still have traces of its mother's milk in it. The female cub, ...

The Barbary lion cubs were born at the Dvůr Králové Safari Park in the Czech Republic in January Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024.