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

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

“Age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress; and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American ...

The frozen wastes of Russia have long preserved ancient animals and have yielded many important Ice Age finds. Recently, reindeer herders came across a preserved Ice Age bear. This is the first adult ...

Hippos lived in Europe alongside mammoths and woolly rhinos during the last Ice Age, according to new research. Detailed analysis of bone finds shows that the heat-loving semi-aquatic mammals ...

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 ...

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Off the coast of Antarctica, the sea ice retreated toward the southernmost continent and, like a bottle cap taken off a soda bottle, that reduced pressure slowed down a process of critical carbon ...

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 ...

Humans didn’t just outlast the last Ice Age; after it ended, we rewrote the script for the evolution of the world’s mammal communities. Over the past 10,000 years, the rise of agriculture and ...

New research suggests that Earth’s ancient ice ages may have been triggered not just by rock weathering, but by a powerful ocean feedback loop, one that could, in time, cool the planet again. Credit: ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A new study gives scientists a fresh look at what life was like in the Las Vegas valley more than 12,000 years ago. Before the strip, Southern Nevada was home to ice-age animals.