An international research team led by the University of Bremen has investigated what influenced the expansion of the ...

Large changes in global sea level, fueled by fluctuations in ice sheet growth and decay, occurred throughout the last ice age, rather than just toward the end of that period.    The findings represent ...

What influenced the expansion of the Patagonian ice sheet during the last ice age? This question has been investigated by an international research team led by the University of Bremen. The scientists ...

When the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) announced in 2018 that the youngest subdivision of the Holocene epoch would be called the Meghalayan Age, a ripple of pride passed across the ...

Hippos survived in icy Europe far longer than thought, revealing surprising warmth and resilience during Ice Age.

Ice Age, a five-part natural history event series distributed by Apple TV and narrated by Tom Hiddleston. Don't miss a look ...

Just 20,000 years ago, coastlines stretched farther, whole land bridges connected continents, and massive glaciers reshaped the map. This is the world as it looked during the last Ice Age.

Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental ...

From saber-toothed cats in the Americas to woolly rhinos in Europe, the Ice Age was home to massive beasts now lost to time. This is the story of how geography and climate shaped them all.

This is what’s known as the "Purple Earth Hypothesis", an idea first proposed by Professor Shiladitya DasSarma, molecular ...

The deficit of this isotope is now thought to mean that some of the oldest rocks on Earth are actually remnants of our planet’s prototype.