The idea of an impending ice age has fascinated scientists and the public alike for decades, traditionally linked to Milankovitch cycles—long-term variations in Earth’s orbit and tilt.

A recent study published in Nature Communications has found the first-known evidence of human beings manufacturing tools out of whale bones. Throughout 26 rock shelters and caves within northern ...

June 19, 2025 — During Earth's ancient Snowball periods, when the entire planet was wrapped in ice, life may have endured in tiny meltwater ponds on the surface of equatorial glaciers.

The tree roots caught James Gregory's eye the moment he waded into the No Name Creek, which isn't really the creek's name. And the roots weren't really tree roots. They were weird, shaped kind of ...

The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish, edited by Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos, Hatje Cantz/Serpentine, 408pp, £44 (pb) The Ice Age is coming to Bradford, UK, with an exhibition and ...

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Studies of tens of thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California have found no clear evidence of any of the species evolving in response to falling temperatures as ice sheets spread ...

Modern humans first arrived in Europe 43,000 years ago during the last ice age. One of the areas where they took up residence was the Swabian Jura in southern Germany. Excavated from the 1860s, six ...

During the last Ice Age, sea levels were much lower, and what is now the ocean floor would have been dry land. If the monument is man-made, it could have been built during this period before the ...

A 30-minute guided tour of the latest exhibition in the Milberg Gallery in Firestone Library at Princeton University. Tours meet in the lobby of Firestone Library. The Sid Lapidus ’59 Collection on ...

A person suffered moderate injuries on Sunday night after crashing their car into a bank off SH1 in East Gore due to black ice on the road. (File photo)Rachael Kelly / The Southland Times Two ...