Smithsonian researchers have linked discoveries within Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park with a previously unknown ...

The Quaternary period is the last period of the Cenozoic Era. It is a period known for the many glaciations and glacial retreats. The extinction of huge birds and mammals happened during this period, ...

The current period should be a stable interglacial, which means the next ice age would begin in about 10,000 years, the researchers said in their findings.

Beginning around 2.5 million years ago, Earth entered an era marked by successive ice ages and interglacial periods, emerging from the last glaciation around 11,700 years ago. A new analysis suggests ...

During the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT), the Earth adopted a 100,000-year glacial-interglacial cycle compared to the previous 41,000-year cycle. Scientists have now discovered landforms ...

Based on the characteristics of regional climate change the T2a terrace also formed during a cold-to-warm transition period, similar to a glacial‒interglacial transition. The T1 terrace formed at the ...

Hence, when most people talk about the “ice age,” they are usually referring to the last glacial period, which began about 115,000 years ago and ended about 11,000 years ago with the start of the ...

New analysis of sediments from the Camp Century ice core reveals that northwestern Greenland was ice-free during the Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 11 interglacial period. This implies the Greenland Ice ...

The absence of ice at that location means that the Greenland Ice Sheet must have contributed more 1.4 meters of sea-level equivalent to global sea level during the interglacial – a period in ...

Ancient fossil trackways show evidence of raptor-prey attack in Pleistocene Europe These trace fossils are from Europe’s Late Pleistocene period between 129,000 to 11,700 years ago.

How do ice ages start? There are a number of ways that ice ages can begin, from changing levels of carbon dioxide to the disruption of ocean circulation as continents shift. The Pleistocene was ...

Analyses of deep-sea sediment cores and other paleoclimatic archives have established the glacial-interglacial climate cycles during the Pleistocene. These cycles are linked to the dynamics of the ice ...