And every volcanic eruption releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, triggering a gnarly environmental feedback loop.

The midday sun sizzles above the scrub of Brazil’s sertão, throwing sharp shadows across a sandstone sheet locals call ...

Knysna Eastern Heads Cave 1 is the first site on the southern coast that provides a continuous occupational record near the end of the Pleistocene (Ice Age) and documents how life changed for people ...

A Trove of Ice Age Fossils Buried in a Wyoming Cave Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Prehistoric Animals At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover ...

This back-and-forth migration pattern continued as recently as the last Glacial period, between 50,000 and 19,000 years ago. By combining cutting-edge ancient DNA and isotope analyses with traditional ...

The ebb and flow of Pleistocene glacial cycles is not random; it follows a predictable pattern dictated by the distinct and deterministic influence of Earth’s orbital geometry, according to ...

Deep in the frozen north of Russia's Sakha Republic lies a place where time is being reversed and a once extinct environment is being brought back to life. How is something like this possible and ...

During the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT), the Earth adopted a 100,000-year glacial-interglacial cycle compared to the previous 41,000-year cycle. Scientists have now discovered landforms ...

An Ice Age Infant’s Bones Reveal Early Americans Ate Woolly Mammoths as a Protein Staple New research examines chemical signatures to determine the diet of a prehistoric boy and his mother ...

Researchers reveal how past climate shifts and vegetation changes drove the evolution and migration of early human species during the Pleistocene.

A new study from archaeologists at UC Berkeley suggests that Pleistocene hunters likely used planted pikes, topped with sharp Clovis points, to kill megafauna like mammoths, mastodons, and even ...