Submerged peat layers from the North Sea show that these rates were seen in two earlier phases: 10,300 and 8,300 years ago.

Until the end of the last ice age, American cheetahs, enormous armadillolike creatures and giant sloths called North America home. But it's long puzzled scientists why these animals went extinct ...

In a nutshell New independent research confirms that 23,000-year-old human footprints at White Sands National Park are authentic, proving people lived in North America during the peak ice age. The ...

Columbian mammoths, cousins of today's elephants, stood up to about 13 feet tall. The first humans who spread across North America during the last Ice Age put mammoths at the top of their menu ...

Some of the earliest North Americans may have arrived on the continent using a "sea-ice highway" as far back as around 24,000 years ago. The findings of the research, which was presented on Friday ...

A new study published in Nature provides key insights into sea level rise after the last ice age, around 11,700 years ago. Using data from the North Sea region, researchers found that sea levels ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - The first humans who spread across North America during the last Ice Age put mammoths at the top of their menu, according to scientists who secured the first direct ...

A new study that reconstructs the history of sea level at the Bering Strait shows that the Bering Land Bridge connecting Asia to North America did not emerge until around 35,700 years ago, less ...

Prehistoric people occupied the site toward the end of the last ice age, and temperatures would have been 5 to 7 degrees Celsius colder than they are today, Pelton said.

Scientists have unveiled the most detailed map of Antarctica without ice, ... North America, and Asia have been rising for about 12,000 years since the end of the last ice age. ...

More: 16 days and more than 700 miles in, Ice Age Trail record is still within grasp of ultrarunner The push to add the Ice Age and North Country trails to the National Park roster has been a ...

Global sea level rose quickly following the last ice age. This was as a result of global warming and the melting of enormous ice caps that covered North America and Europe.