Humans may have returned to Britain far earlier than scientists once believed — not long after the last ice sheet began ...

What they had, it turns out, is the oldest intact climate record ever recovered in Western Europe — a continuous chemical ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Research reveals that Serbian cave systems show evidence of human occupation during the second half of the last ice age. Humans may have been ...

Plant wax preserved in lake sediments reveals what the Earth's climate and rainfall were like 240,000 years ago.

As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that helped release long-stored carbon back into the atmosphere. Deep-sea ...

The North Sea is home to the remains of a vast land that has been lost to time and is referred to as Doggerland, the area of land that connected Great Britain to continental Europe following the last ...

It was the Dice Age. An analysis of 12,000-year-old Native American dice could potentially provide the first-ever proof of humans gambling, per a groundbreaking study published in the journal American ...