A study of Paleolithic skeletons from Central Europe suggests people's teeth were worn down and crowded together because of ...

The Ice Age was a hard period in Earth's history, but ancient humans were quite the hardy bunch. They managed survive and ...

How did woolly mammoths survive the last ice age? And how thick was the ice over New York City? Test your knowledge by taking ...

Humans have become a geologic force by cooking the planet — using fire on a scale that is altering land, water, air and ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

The blast that caused this darkness and cold was one of the largest volcanic eruptions of the 19th century, a brutal event ...

Scientists are also hoping the ice will shed light on what caused the timing of Earth’s ice ages to shift suddenly about 1 million years ago, an event that nearly caused the extinction of ...

A core of ice extracted from Antarctica had literally frozen in time the climate of the planet going back nearly 70,000 years.

Humans have been recording the weather for thousands of years. Antarctic ice, however, has been at it for over a million. An international team of scientists has extracted a 1.74-mile-long (2.8 ...