A researcher claims to have found evidence of humans in Chesapeake Bay over 22,000 years ago. The assertion is yet another recent announcement claiming to push the arrival of humans in North ...
These human ancestors lived during the Ice Age over 20,000 years ago. What do we know about them? The 'Solutreans' were an ancient people who lived in what is today Spain, Portugal and southern ...
During the past billion years, the Earth's climate has fluctuated between warm periods - sometimes even completely ice-free - and cold periods, when glaciers scoured the continents. The cold ...
An encounter with a cold cloud of gas and dust could have caused our planet's "protective giant bubble" to draw back. Scientists believe Earth may have briefly lost protection from the sun around ...
Earth may have been exposed to interstellar clouds which may have changed the chemistry of the planet's atmosphere and led to the development of multiple ice ages, researchers suggest ...
Millions of years ago, Earth might have temporarily moved out of the sun’s protective shield, known as the heliosphere. This shield, depicted as a dark gray bubble against the backdrop of interstellar ...
A “tree spa” created by hot springs in what is now the Czech Republic may have served as a refuge for plants—and possibly animals—during the last ice age, when much of Europe was covered ...
We may earn a commission from links on this page. A paleoart reconstruction of G. newtoni. Illustration: Jacob C. Blokland An Ice Age bird that weighed twice as much as an ostrich was adapted for ...
People often use sea ice, as seen here off Alaska’s northern coast outside the town of Utqiagvik, for travelling. (Photo by Ned Rozell) Human footprints preserved in mud at White Sands National ...