A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to ...

Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

which melted at the end of the last Ice Age. Most of that ice — along with the sediment contained within it — ended up in the oceans. Finding traces of it on land is extremely rare. “This is the first ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...

Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be triggered by very little ocean warming above present-day, leading to a ...

Tickets have gone on sale for summer and early fall tours of the Coyote Canyon Mammoth Site, where the bones of an ice age mammoth are being painstakingly unearthed within a couple of miles of the ...

The findings raise fresh ... Sophisticated Pyrotechnology in the Ice Age: This Is How Humans Made Fire Tens of Thousands of Years Ago Apr. 14, 2025 — Whether for cooking, heating, as a light ...

Across the icy edges of Earth’s northern and southern reaches, life has adapted to thrive in some of the harshest conditions.

That expanded by 30 times the number of sequenced Ice Age horse genomes known to science from two to more than 60. The genetic information in those bones revealed a lost “Arctic highway” that ...

Modern humans first arrived in Europe 43,000 years ago during the last ice age. One of the areas where they took up residence was the Swabian Jura in southern Germany. Excavated from the 1860s, six ...