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

It makes sense that between the time when the Earth was covered in ice and when the ice melted into oceans, there was a period where there was liquid water with lots of ice in it.

The Founding Fathers who gathered in Philadelphia to adopt the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 picked a nice day ...

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.

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 ...

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

What is the most recent time period called? The most recently named time period is the Holocene epoch, which started roughly 11,700 years ago, shortly after the last Ice Age.

1. Ice sheets and glaciers are key components of ice ages. The Utah Geological Survey defines an ice age as “a long interval of time … when global temperatures are relatively cold and large ...

Earth is at its hottest in thousands of years. Here’s how we know. Observations are enough to make scientists confident that the current period of warming is exceptional ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud.

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 ...