Picture the frozen winds of the Ice Age tearing across vast, wild plains. Imagine two giants—one with fangs like daggers, the ...

During the last Ice Age,roughly between 26,000 and 19,000 years ago, the Earth was dramatically different from today. Vast ...

A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

Different phases of evolution during ice age Date: May 23, 2025 Source: Bournemouth University Summary: Cold-adapted animals started to evolve 2.6 million years ago when the permanent ice at the ...

That expanded by 30 times the number of sequenced Ice Age horse genomes known to science from two to more than 60. The genetic information in those bones revealed a lost “Arctic highway” that ...

At the end of the ice age, the grasslands of Alaska transitioned to peatlands that did not feed grazers such as horses or bison. The lack of prey didn’t help the farthest-north lions, nor the ...

Animals such as the wooly mammoth evolved to survive the cold during the ice age. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) Many of today’s tundra and boreal forest species likely trace their roots to this time.

Scholars generally agree that fire was crucial to human survival during the most recent Ice Age—yet in Europe, there is surprisingly little evidence of hearths from its coldest years, between ...

Natural History Museum of Utah's newest temporary exhibit serendipitously offers a new lens on the state's newest mascot, and how ice changed Utah.

Some 95% of these prehistoric-looking beasts—which were contemporaries of long-extinct species like the woolly mammoth and the sabre-toothed tiger back in the Ice Age—are found in Kazakhstan.

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may have temporarily sped up—with a little help from ...