Ancient DNA preserved in seabed sediments suggests Doggerland hosted temperate forests far earlier than expected.

Long before humans cultivated crops or sailed between continents, a group of plant viruses was already evolving among wild ...

Thousands of years before the North Sea flooded the region, a vast landscape known as Doggerland once connected Britain to mainland Europe.

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was like during the Pleistocene ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) – A team of researchers has identified an Ice Age relative of the muskox from fossils uncovered in Carlsbad Caverns National Park. The new species, named Speleotherium logani, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment. The Ice Age tends to get flattened into a postcard: endless white, ...

During all ice ages in Earth’s history, global temperatures dropped well below freezing across the planet. And it wasn’t just a few icy trips around the Sun. Earth can take hundreds of millions of ...