Ice Age

Reducing ice cap due to global warming. A new study suggests that the Arctic was already moving towards…

People who lived in Europe more than 30,000 years ago were more connected than scientists believed. A team…

The first Americans, seen here eying mammoths at an ancient lake, descend from the Ancient North Siberians and…

The remains of what is believed to be an ancient mammoth, as well as Nazi-era relics have been…

One of my favorite old-school ways to call someone crazy is saying they’re “nuttier than squirrel shit.” It’s…

Stonehenge has always been a monument of mysteries, but few stones within its circle have provoked as much…

For several decades, the story of why woolly mammoths disappeared seemed remarkably simple and unquestioned; radiocarbon-dated fossils across…

Scientists have identified the Yarrabubba impact crater in Western Australia as the Earth’s oldest, dating back 2.229 billion…

A new study from central China is changing how scientists think about creativity and survival among ancient humans.…

Paleontologist John Moretti searching for fossils in the stream that flows through Bender’s Cave. Credit: John Moretti. Deep…

New experiments show that tar made from birch bark — long known as a tool adhesive — can…

Chemical clues preserved in the teeth of straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) from the 125,000-year-old site of Neumark-Nord in…

Arctic ice had been expanding for at least 1,000 years before reaching its greatest extent around 1960; researchers say greenhouse warming then reversed a natural slide toward another ice age