Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850. Average ...

Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age.

In the depths of the Hoyo Negro pit 180 feet below sea level, a diving team has successfully recovered the skulls, jaw bones, and other remains of two long-extinct Ice Age species.

Somewhere in the frozen plains of southwestern Russia, a 40-foot circle of mammoth bones and tusks has stood for over 24,000 ...

Peruvian archaeologists found the fossilized remains of three Ice Age mastodons, which shed new light on these animals' presence in the region, with further specimes hoped to be unearthed shortly ...

In the warm periods between the Ice Ages ... Some historians believe that Stone Age paintings had a religious meaning. They think the painted animals were meant to represent powerful spirits.