The Pleistocene epoch is a geological time period that includes the last ice age, when glaciers covered huge parts of the globe. Also called the Pleistocene era, or simply the Pleistocene, this ...

The period we live in now, called the Holocene, began some 11,700 years ago when the last ice age ended. It's known as an interglacial period, or a time between ice ages.

The ice age reached its height, a period called the Last Glacial Maximum, around 20,000 years ago. ... The ice age ended a long time ago, but we’re actually still in an ice age: ...

A trove of prehistoric Ice Age treasures are being exhibited alongside classic works of art to show why they deserve their ...

In a nutshell Stone Age humans mastered fire technology during Earth’s harshest climate period 23,000 years ago, creating hearths that reached temperatures of 600°C—comparable to modern ...

Beginning around 2.5 million years ago, Earth entered an era marked by successive ice ages and interglacial periods, emerging from the last glaciation around 11,700 years ago. A new analysis ...

Over time, however, the CO2 levels built up on the Earth from volcanic eruptions and other sources. Since the water was frozen, it was unable to absorb the CO2, which led to a period of global ...

The giant ice sheet formed during a period of the last ice age known as the mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT) that lasted between 1.3 million and 700,000 years ago.

The most recently named time period is the Holocene epoch, which started roughly 11,700 years ago, shortly after the last Ice Age. At this point, our climate became more stable, which can be seen ...

Ice Age survivors Large-scale genomic analysis documents the migrations of Ice Age hunter-gatherers over a period of 30,000 years – they took shelter in Western Europe but died out on the ...

Jared Wildenradt has hiked the Ice AgeTrail nine times. Lisa Siewert is mapping the geologic highlights of the path. They ...