Plummeting temperatures forced some human populations to adapt to the new conditions thousands of years ago, but the changes ...

The horse originated in North America around four million years ago. As changing sea levels created land bridges between ...

A team at the University of Arizona has proposed a mechanism that not only explains the rapid ice growth during the last glacial period but could also apply to earlier cycles. The study ...

A fine mist accompanies the clan as the sun rises and they begin their journey. There are 12 people in total, some of them ...

We currently live in an interglacial period called the Holocene epoch that began around 11,700 years ago. Before the Holocene, the last glacial period lasted about 110,000 years. It is often ...

Then, around 115,000 years ago, the last glacial period arrived, compelling the surviving populations to move closer to equatorial latitudes. While human and Neanderthal populations thrived ...

Corridors that allow animals to move to more hospitable landscapes are essential to their survival in a changing climate, ...

In San Teodoro cave, north-eastern Sicily, a team of scientists has found evidence of earliest recorded presence of humans on ...

New study reveals ancient horses moved across the Bering land bridge in both directions, not just one-way as previously ...