Fifty thousand years ago, North America was home to towering giants. Mammoths roamed the tundra, saber-toothed cats hunted in ...

A hotspot from underneath Earth’s crust may have created a low point that glaciers finished carving out and filling with ...

toward the end of the last ice age. It’s possible that they reached North America more than 32,000 years ago. Now, “we need lots more sites to make sense of where they came from and by what ...

Scientists have discovered that a tooth found near Old Crow, Yukon, in 2018 belonged to the oldest known woolly mammoth in ...

What sparked the formation of Earth’s vast ice sheets during the last ice age—and how did they spread ... With summers warmed by the North Atlantic Current, the area should have resisted ...

New research reveals that post-ice age sea levels rose over a meter per century during key periods and totaled about 38 ...

Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age ... research team found that an initially modest melting of ice over North America set off a global cascade of ice loss extending ...

Researchers have discovered the oldest-known wooly mammoth fossil in North America ... (i.e. ice ages)," Chacón-Duque said. Most mammoths died out by the end of the last ice age as the world ...