A chemical analysis of the sticks found that they were 11,000 and 12,000 years old, respectively, meaning they were used during the end of the last Ice Age in Australia, according to the release.

“The first time I read an Aboriginal story from Australia that seemed to recall the rise of sea levels after the last ice age, I thought, No, I don’t think this is correct,” Nunn says.

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...

During the last ice age, Australia and Tasmania were connected by a huge land bridge, which allowed people to reach Tasmania on foot. Due to low sea levels at the time, Palawa/Pakana (Tasmanian ...

An Ice Age bird that weighed twice as much as an ... Based on bones of Genyornis newtoni found in South Australia’s Lake Callabonna, the animal weighed about 500 pounds (230 kilograms), making ...

Hominids have been using fire for at least a million years — but scientists have found that human fire-wielding skills during our planet's last great Ice Age became so advanced that they would ...

colonized Aotearoa at the start of the Ice Age, most likely from Australia. Lead author Dr. Pascale Lubbe, of the Department of Zoology, says despite this, suggestions that such recent immigrants ...

As the last Ice Age came to an end nearly 10,000 years ago, something unexpected happened deep beneath Earth’s surface. Large glaciers began to melt. The sea levels rose quickly—about 1 ...

Clovis points are some of the most commonly unearthed objects from the last Ice Age. Thousands have been uncovered over the past century, with some found embedded into mammoth skeletons.