Greenland’s ice-covered landscape looks like an immovable block on satellite maps. Yet the story beneath its center suggests a different past ...

Theopetra Cave, in Greece, believed to be the oldest human construction on earth, reopened to the public after 9 years of ...

A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...

Imagine stepping into a misty, ancient Irish forest, the ground trembling beneath your feet as a colossal shape emerges ...

More information: Attila Çiner et al, Late Pleistocene glacial chronology and paleoclimate of the Cadí Massif, SE Pyrenees, Spain: Insights from 36Cl cosmogenic surface exposure dating and ...

If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

Rhododendron arboreum, photographed in the Western Ghats, is the only species of rhododendron found south of the Himalayas and was possibly brought here during the Pleistocene glacial period.

Fossil evidence shows existence of elephants, giraffes, and crocodiles thriving in environments rich in rivers and lakes.

NPS / Alamy Ancient human footprints, preserved in a dry lakebed at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, reveal remarkably vivid vignettes of life in the late Pleistocene: children jumping in ...