Ice Age
Scientists discover RNA molecules from a mammoth that went extinct 40,000 years ago
The never-before-seen biological snapshot provides insight into the young mammoth's final moments, expanding our knowledge of creatures that went extinct tens of thousands of years ago.
Before pugs or Great Danes: Doggie diversity in size and shape began at tail end of Ice Age
Scientists uncover how tropical hippos weathered the last Ice Age in Central Europe
Ancient DNA Reveals Mastodons Were Shaped by Ice Age Climate Swings
Scientists date 300,000-year reindeer tooth, resetting Iberia’s Ice Age calendar
The fossil, recovered with a human skull fragment and stone tools, shows reindeer lived beside early humans across the peninsula.
Dargan cave findings reveal humans lived in Australia's Blue Mountains during last Ice Age
The findings upended long-held beliefs about how humans moved through the mountains and challenges long-held assumptions about ancient human life in Australia.
Famous Ice Age 'puppies' identified as wolf cubs
Researchers were surprised to see evidence of a woolly rhinoceros as part of the puppies' last meals, as this would have been a considerably large animal for a wolf to hunt.
Archaeologists discover 20,000-year-old stone tools in South African caves, revealing Ice Age techn
"Finding the same tools and the same methods used to make these tools across this entire country suggests that people were connecting with each other over long distances."
Geological evidence links Late Antique Little Ice Age to fall of Roman Empire
Gernon: 'the Late Antique Little Ice Age helped tip the balance when the Eastern Empire was stretched thin'.
How foragers built great fires when the Ice Age was at its coldest
A recent Geoarchaeology study led by William C. Murphree and colleagues investigates three combustion features at the Ukrainian site of Korman’ 9, dated to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM).
After 46,000 years, once thawed the worm extracted from Arctic permafrost resumed normal activity
The nematode, officially named Panagrolaimus kolymaensis, was discovered at a depth of 40 meters inside a fossilized burrow of Arctic squirrels.
Ice Age American families pulled travois 22,000 years ago, White Sands discovery shows
Footprints of adults and children alongside drag marks indicate Ice Age families used travois to transport goods.
An Ice Age refuge: DNA of humans, wolves, mammoths retrieved from sediments in El Mirón cave
For the first time, researchers managed to recover DNA from sediment at a Cantabrian site.
Study reveals how Ice Age humans built mammoth-bone structures
Evidence suggests humans scavenged mammoth bones from existing bone beds over centuries.
30,000 years ago, European Ice Age children pierced their cheeks at age 10
A new research suggests that cheek piercings were popular as long ago as 30,000 years, with teenagers and children as young as 10 years old sporting labrets during the Ice Age.
