Learn more about glacial periods in Yellowstone National Park and how they may be connected with hydrothermal activity.

Right now, a wall of ice nearly two miles thick is covering the land where Chicago used to be. And it has been moving across ...

Humans seem to have been adapted to the last ice age in similar ways to wolves and bears, according to our recent study, challenging longstanding theories about how and where our ancestors lived ...

On a windswept bluff above the Ros and Rosava rivers in what is now central Ukraine, ice age hunter-gatherers once built shelters entirely out of the bones of woolly mammoths, using the remains of the ...

Glaciers are thought to change at, well, a glacial pace. Certainly that has been true throughout the planet’s history. The current ice age — known as the Pilocene-Quatenary glaciation, which began 2.6 ...

Humans seem to have been adapted to the last ice age in similar ways to wolves and bears, according to our recent study, challenging longstanding theories about how and where our ancestors lived ...

An international team led by the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has just published a paper in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews reconstructing episodes of ...

During the Sturtian glacial period during the Neoproterozoic Era, Earth underwent periods of global glaciation, which have been described as either "Snowball" and "Slushball" Earth scenarios. In ...

Researchers have identified a ‘tipping point’ about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being relatively warm and stable to cold and chaotic, as continental ice sheets ...