The Huronian Ice Age, occurring 2.5 billion years ago, was Earth's first major ice age. In this video, we dive into what the ...

If Yellowstone is dangerous now, it’s a cakewalk compared to the Pleistocene age where humans had to contend with mammoths, ...

Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been crafting tools from whale bones since more than 20,000 years ago, illustrating ...

About 20,000 years ago, when Europe was frozen in the final chill of the Ice Age, mysterious giants periodically washed up on the Atlantic shores of modern northern Spain and southwestern France.

Archaeologists have uncovered an antler ice pick that sheds light on how prehistoric hunters adapted to glacial conditions in the unforgiving conditions of early North America.

Scientists have identified the most powerful solar storm ever recorded, an extreme event that struck Earth around 12,350 BC, ...

Across the icy edges of Earth’s northern and southern reaches, life has adapted to thrive in some of the harshest conditions.

Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

THE words swim on the page as Marie Louis struggles to take in the enormity of what she is reading. In her hand is a letter ...

Cold-adapted animals started to evolve 2.6 million years ago when the permanent ice at the poles became more prevalent. There followed a time when the continental ice sheets expanded and contracted ...

A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to ...

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