The Huronian Ice Age, over 2.5 billion years ago, was Earth's first major ice age. In this video, we explore what caused it, what life was like, and how the planet eventually warmed. Join us on ...

For millennia, fire has been considered an essential element for human survival: it not only provided warmth in hostile climates but also enabled food cooking, tool-making, and even served as a hub ...

Over the years, intense glaciation layered waste on the planet, but this fossil surprisingly remained intact. It was 444 million years later that palaeontologists unearthed the fossil only to be ...

These large predators were lost during the Late Pleistocene extinctions that eliminated many large land mammals from the Americas near the end of the most recent glaciation. Now, in a coordinated ...

“Most of upper North America was covered by glaciation. But why, in this particular area, (are there) these Great Lakes?” said Aibing Li, a seismologist at the University of Houston who co ...

Over time, these wet phases became shorter and less intense, coinciding with major global changes such as Northern Hemisphere glaciation and a weakening of the monsoon system. After the mid ...

In fact, blue jays have been credited with accelerating oak expansion northwards after the last glaciation.” – Northern Woodlands Blue jays are close cousins of the crows, ravens, and magpies.

The brown traces represent the beds of ancient streams, organized in dendritic drainage networks that are now abandoned. Credit: Antoine Delaunay/Guillaume Baby/Abdallah Zaki The research, published ...

These last features and hydrologic models indicate that wet-based glaciation is possible, though evidence of sub-glacial melting has been limited. To address this, Berman and Williams mapped these ...