A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of ...

An annual hiking challenge is back this October, encouraging people to get outside and enjoy the fall colors along the Ice Age National Scenic Trail in Wisconsin. The Ice Age Trail Alliance's Mammoth ...

A woolly mammoth’s tusk is a story written in ivory. It sprouts from beneath the mammoth’s gums, cells dividing continually, even daily. “The tip of the tusk is the young mammoth,” says Matthew ...

Scientists in Ireland are studying the ancient British-Irish Ice Sheet in an attempt to better understand the future, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reported. Their work involves mapping and ...

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...

High above the Arctic, powerful winds are breaking apart — and the effects could reshape the planet. This film investigates how a collapsing polar vortex might lead to a new Ice Age. Trump's plan to ...

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study. A team of archaeologists recently examined animal bones at sites dating to the waning years of ...

Between 780,000 and 12,000 years ago, Europe’s climate swung between freezing stretches and warmer periods that allowed hippopotamuses to migrate out of Africa into Europe, where they thrived as far ...

The federal government is dropping age restrictions for new ICE officers, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Wednesday. “We’ve removed any of the age barriers,” Noem said during an ...

Melting ice sheets in North America played a far greater role in driving global sea-level rise at the end of the last ice age than scientists had thought, according to a Tulane University-led study ...

Archaeologists discovered three ancient rock art sites, dated to 12,000 years old, in modern-day Saudi Arabia. The art is the earliest evidence of human repopulation of the area after it was deserted ...

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