Before humans, Europe was a very different continent
Researchers call to reassess what our idea of what European nature is
Tag: ice age
After 10,000 years, spruce has finally reconquered Sweden
It's been long journey, but spruce finally made it back to Sweden.
Scientists find 25,000-year-old circular structure made of hundreds of mammoth bones
It's as spooky as it is fascinating.
The last mammoths lived on a remote island in the Arctic
They died-off suddenly -- but perhaps not dramatically.
What causes an Ice Age? A simple explainer
The cold hard facts about ice ages.
Marsupial giant pandas roamed Australia during the Ice Age
They likely chewed food in the same adorable way.
Change in ocean circulation bumped up CO2 levels in the atmosphere and helped end the last Ice Age
The planet's climate system is even more complicated than we thought.
Coal formation sucked so much CO2 out of the atmosphere that Earth nearly froze over 300 million years ago
"It is quite an irony that forming the coal that today is a major factor for dangerous global warming once ...
Early Europeans may have survived the Ice Age because of arthritis
Ok, but can it go away now?
Ancient climate change turned whales into Earth’s largest organisms ever , study reports
Do you think they get self-conscious about their weight?
Erosion and glacial melt equally explain massive volcanic activity at end of ice age
Once any ice age is over, the increased surface temperature causes the ice caps to melt which lessens the pressure ...
Too much of a good thing: Emperor penguins were almost killed of by the Ice Age
They like freezing conditions, but the Emperor penguins struggled during the last Ice Age, a new study concluded. In fact, ...
Meteor impact in Canada may have triggered the Big Freeze that caused mass extinction and forced humans into agriculture
The high temperatures of the meteorite impact 12,900 years ago produced mm-sized spherules of melted glass with the mullite and ...
Oldest known pottery is 20,000 years old and comes from China
One of the pottery fragments recovered from a layer dating approximately 20,000 years old in the Xianrendong cave in south ...
Ice age relics still alive in China’s darkest caves
In the darkest caves of southwest China, one can experience fragments of the long set Ice Age and travel back ...
Taking a look at the ‘little ice age’ of 1810
Global warming is one of the main concerns on everybody's lips, causing more and more damage to the environment every year, ...
Evidence of Ice Age hunters: hand axes
An amateur Dutch archaeologist named Jan Meulmeester made a startling find which pleases scientists: an amazing collection of 28 flint ...
Cave Records Provide Clues To Climate Change
Basic paleoclimatology and one a little more There have been many climatic shifts throughout the geologic period of our ...
