In 1979, researchers unearthed the mummified body of a 55,000-year-old Steppe bison in the Alaskan tundra. Shortly after, they sliced off a piece of its neck — to eat! Here's a news story told ...

Fossils, Genes, and the Rise of the Steppe Tundra. The fossil record shows that polar plants and beetles may have remained more physically stable over time than larger animals.

The Mammoth steppe, a region of steppe tundra almost completely devoid of trees, was the dominant landscape from Central Europe to East Asia during the cold periods of the Pleistocene era.

“Forget about this Hollywood-like image of the Neanderthal as this half-naked primitive that roamed the steppe tundra of northern Europe hunting for mammoths and other megafauna with poor and ...

Tundra means rolling treeless plains ... Alternate names are Rocky Mountain steppe and montane forest. It is interesting to note that this is one of the largest temperate rain forests.

As the Ice Age eased, the dry steppe tundra where mammoths long had thrived transformed, gradually from south to north, into wetter temperate forests amid rising global temperatures, ...

Fossils, Genes, and the Rise of the Steppe Tundra The fossil record shows that polar plants and beetles may have remained more physically stable over time than larger animals. But that doesn’t ...