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

The first period between the Panthers and Oilers was filled with whistles and ended with a big scrum.

The period we live in now, called the Holocene, began some 11,700 years ago when the last ice age ended. It's known as an interglacial period, or a time between ice ages.

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.

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big clues to the causes of their demise.

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 ...

This sample is particularly intriguing because it provides more context for the mysterious Mid-Pleistocene Transition—a period in Earth’s history when the glacial-interglacial cycle slowly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The present-day glacial-interglacial cycle has a period of about 100,000 years. However, the glacial cycle in the early Pleistocene (about 800,000 years ago) switched more rapidly, with a cycle of ...

Straight-tusked elephants were the largest terrestrial mammals of the Pleistocene, a geological epoch lasting until 11,700 years ago when vast ice sheets and other glaciers spread across North ...