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 ...

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 ...

Scientists call this period, the point during the Ice Age at which the glaciers covered their largest extent, the Last Glacial Maximum. “We have a lot of data about this time period because it ...

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