Cold-adapted animals started to evolve 2.6 million years ago when the permanent ice at the poles became more prevalent. There followed a time when the continental ice sheets expanded and contracted ...

A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to ...

Throughout much of Earth's history, the climate has switched between periods of extreme ... about this frosty time in Earth's past. How much do you know about the last ice age?

If you think our winters are chilly, be glad you weren’t alive around 12,000 years ago, when Earth was undergoing its last Ice Age. Our planet’s last glacial period (colloquially known as the ...

As the last Ice ... evolves over time. During the past 3 million years, Earth’s surface has gone through a series of glacial cycles. These cycles include long periods when ice sheets grow ...

intense cold periods, like the Younger Dryas. This brief cold snap interrupted the warming trend at the end of the last ice age and remains a topic of great interest to climate scientists.

Hominids have been using fire for at least a million years — but scientists have found that human fire-wielding skills during our planet's last great Ice Age became so advanced that they would ...

The last ice age affecting the UK was at its peak around 22,000 years ago. During this time, temperatures remained low and ice sheets and glaciers covered the north of the UK and other parts of ...

In Detroit, the subsidence is caused by the ground relaxing after the weight of the glaciers in the last Ice Age more than ... on a street for a long period of time." Imagine a mattress ...

Atlantic currents slowed dramatically during the Younger Dryas period. By reconstructing those ... slowed dramatically at the end of the last ice age with dire effects on organisms in the Atlantic ...