Ice Age
“Unbelievable”: Tourists smash 10,000-year-old, 90 kg mammoth tusk
The item was described as a "one-of-a-kind artifact". Investigators say one of the men allegedly climbed onto the other’s shoulders.
Researchers discover world’s oldest sewn hide, dated to Ice Age, in Oregon caves - study
Scientists recover genome from woolly rhino eaten by Ice Age wolf puppy - study
Scientists discover RNA molecules from a mammoth that went extinct 40,000 years ago
Before pugs or Great Danes: Doggie diversity in size and shape began at tail end of Ice Age
These findings contradict the notion that such diversity was mainly a relatively new phenomenon driven by selective breeding in recent centuries.
Scientists uncover how tropical hippos weathered the last Ice Age in Central Europe
researchers report the European fossils display very low genetic diversity, indicating a small isolated herd marooned in the Upper Rhine Graben during interstadial warm spells.
Ancient DNA Reveals Mastodons Were Shaped by Ice Age Climate Swings
New genetic evidence uncovers repeated waves of dispersal and surprising diversity among North America’s Ice Age giants.
Scientists date 300,000-year reindeer tooth, resetting Iberia’s Ice Age calendar
The fossil, recovered with a human skull fragment and stone tools, shows reindeer lived beside early humans across the peninsula.
Dargan cave findings reveal humans lived in Australia's Blue Mountains during last Ice Age
The findings upended long-held beliefs about how humans moved through the mountains and challenges long-held assumptions about ancient human life in Australia.
Famous Ice Age 'puppies' identified as wolf cubs
Researchers were surprised to see evidence of a woolly rhinoceros as part of the puppies' last meals, as this would have been a considerably large animal for a wolf to hunt.
Archaeologists discover 20,000-year-old stone tools in South African caves, revealing Ice Age techn
"Finding the same tools and the same methods used to make these tools across this entire country suggests that people were connecting with each other over long distances."
Geological evidence links Late Antique Little Ice Age to fall of Roman Empire
Gernon: 'the Late Antique Little Ice Age helped tip the balance when the Eastern Empire was stretched thin'.
How foragers built great fires when the Ice Age was at its coldest
A recent Geoarchaeology study led by William C. Murphree and colleagues investigates three combustion features at the Ukrainian site of Korman’ 9, dated to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM).
After 46,000 years, once thawed the worm extracted from Arctic permafrost resumed normal activity
The nematode, officially named Panagrolaimus kolymaensis, was discovered at a depth of 40 meters inside a fossilized burrow of Arctic squirrels.
