Recent dredging operations off the coast of Java have uncovered fossil evidence that reshapes what scientists thought they ...

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 ...

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 ...

This incredible pyramid structure predates the great Pyramids of Giza and Stonehenge by an amazing 22,000 years.

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

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 ...

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

An open-air site in Austria occupied by humans during the coldest part of the last glacial period may have been dedicated to hunting reindeer for pelts, showing how people adapted to extreme ...