Researchers at La Trobe University, Australia, and the University of Utah, U.S., report that recent DNA findings challenge ...

The Pleistocene epoch lasted from about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago and included the last ice age, when glaciers and giant megafauna dominated the landscape.

"The Tibetan Plateau was previously thought to be uninhabitable during the last glacial maximum," said Li. Evidence found in ...

The more than 100 ha wide reclamation area was meticulously searched on hands and knees [by Berghuis], collecting vertebrate ...

If large creatures like elephants, giraffes and bison are allowed to thrive, they could alter habitats that allow for the ...

The research paper titled “A cosmogenic 10Be (Beryllium 10) moraine chronology of arid, alpine Late Pleistocene glaciation in the Pioneer Mountains of Montana, USA” is a peer-reviewed ...

More information: Yasuto Watanabe et al, Astronomical forcing shaped the timing of early Pleistocene glacial cycles, Communications Earth & Environment (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-023-00765-x.

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 ...

The present-day glacial-interglacial cycle has a period of about 100,000 years. However, the glacial cycle in the early Pleistocene (about 800,000 years ago) switched more rapidly, ...

The reason for the recurring Pleistocene ice ages, say Ewing and Donn, is that the earth’s poles are where they are. The South Pole is in the middle of a continent, and the North Pole is in the ...