Mammoths (Mammuthus) are prehistoric beasts that roamed tundra ecosystems during the last ice age (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago), but their evolutionary history goes back farther than that. The now ...

From saber-toothed cats in the Americas to woolly rhinos in Europe, the Ice Age was home to massive beasts now lost to time. This is the story of how geography and climate shaped them all.