Amid busy construction crews racing to build an airport in Mexico, scientists are unearthing more and more mammoth skeletons in what has quickly become one of the world’s biggest concentrations of the now-extinct relative of modern elephants.
These etchings are at least 15,000 years old.
A University of Arizona-led team has nailed down the temperature of the last ice age—the Last Glacial Maximum of 20,000 years ago—to about 46 degrees Fahrenheit (7.8 C).
Rare elongated dice and board game pieces from the Roman Iron Age have been discovered in western Norway.
Earth is bracing for a solar minimum: a dormant period in which the Sun radiates less energy or heat at our planet than usual.
A controversial theory that suggests an extraterrestrial body crashing to Earth almost 13,000 years ago caused the extinction of many large animals and a probable population decline in early humans is gaining traction from research sites around the world.
Divers excavating an underwater cave in Mexico have discovered the bones of giant meat eaters that lived there during the last ice age, a new study reported.
Major tectonic collisions near the equator have caused three ice ages in the last 540 million years
A legal battle over a 10,600 year old ancient skeleton — called the ‘Spirit Cave Mummy’ — has ended after advanced DNA sequencing found it was related to a Native American tribe.
New book’s colorful illustrations also offer perspective of just how large these creatures were
