During an ice age, the polar regions are cold ... Between 20 and 16 million years ago, there was a brief respite from the big chill, but this was followed by a second major cooling period so ...

However, don't rush for your woolly hat and scarf just yet, because the long-term effects of human-made climate change could prevent the next ice age from ever happening. Our planet has always ...

They also stand in three decidedly different camps regarding why America's rich complement of big animals went extinct quite suddenly at the end of the Ice Age. The three camps are known tongue in ...

The last glacial maximum, which lasted from 26,500 to 19,000 years ago, was the most severe phase of the Late Pleistocene ice age. During this period, massive ice sheets and polar ice caps covered ...

Traveling East might have been an appropriate tendency for early humans living in what is now Europe near the end of the Ice ...

Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according ...

A strange cast of ferocious predators and giant herbivores lived here during the ice age. Graham Duggan Most archeologists agree that human beings reached North America 14,000 years ago ...

Before Ice Age Fossils State Park, there was the ‘Big Dig’ — PHOTOS Before Ice Age Fossils State Park was even an idea, there was the Big Dig. From October 1962 to January 1963 ...