Scientists found 12,000-year-old glacier ice in the Alps, revealing new details about Europe’s climate history and human ...

Those ridges are called end moraines and were formed during the Wisconsin glacial episode, popularly known as the last Ice Age.

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

A new line of evidence is providing further corroboration of the antiquity of fossilized footprints discovered at White Sands National Park in New Mexico that rewrite the history of humans in the ...

In a nutshell New independent research confirms that 23,000-year-old human footprints at White Sands National Park are authentic, proving people lived in North America during the peak ice age. The ...

It reveals that people inhabited glacial terrains during the last ice age—a period typically associated with coastal refuges." ...

The Earth has had at least five major ice ages, and humans showed up in time for the most recent one. In fact, we’re still in it.

Fossils show puzzling lack of evolution during last ice age peak Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to shifting ...

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.

Sediment from the Last Ice Age Found in an Alaskan Cave Provides Both History and Forecast Particles of both minerals and organic matter track the retreat of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, which melted ...

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 ...

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may have temporarily sped up—with a little help from ...