The 2009 discovery of footprints (human and animal) left behind in layers of clay and silt at New Mexico’s White Sands ...

This is the mesmerizing moment massive ice sheets shatter like shards of crystal as they are pushed onto shore from Sayram ...

The remote and often unforgiving surface of Greenland’s ice sheet has long been a subject of intrigue for scientists. What ...

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

The wind, having tumbled down 4,000 feet of elevation from the domed summit of the ice sheet hundreds of miles to the west, ...

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by researchers from the Institute of Earth ...

Beneath East Antarctica's thick ice, scientists have uncovered a hidden, ancient landscape untouched for 34 million years.

Scientists have discovered a 34-million-year-old preserved landscape beneath Antarctic ice, offering insights into Earth's ...

Beneath the thick ice of East Antarctica lies a hidden world—untouched for over 34 million years. This frozen expanse, more ...

A narrower ice sheet ran down the West Coast ... where they found a surprising wealth of Pleistocene species. The paleontologist Larry Martin, who led multiple subsequent excavations in the ...

This new study, however, sequences the genomes of 68 Late Pleistocene horse specimens ... there was one distinct horse lineage south of the ice sheets, another across Alaska and the Yukon ...

Triggered by an abrupt period of warming during the late Pleistocene, which ended about 11,700 years ago, the collapse of the Cordilleran ice sheet holds important lessons for both the style and pace ...