The last ice age is no exception. During this glacial period, ice sheets covered North America, northern Europe, and Asia. Evidence of their era, which ended 11,000 years ago, can be found all ...

Mark Ruwedel practices, quite compellingly, what might be called the photography of contact. Historians regard contact between native and colonizing cultures as equally decisive for both. For ...

After mastodons and mammoths, a transformed landscape Date: November 20, 2009 Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison Summary: Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North ...

Travel back 20,000 years into the last Ice Age, to a time when the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains were treeless and the ridgelines and mountain peaks laden in snow and ice.

Lava flows, near mile-thick glaciers and ice age floods layered and carved up this landscape.

The retreat of Arctic glaciers is exposing landscapes that haven't seen the sun for nearly 120,000 years. These rocky vistas have very likely been covered in ice since the Eemian, a period in ...

Fri., May 8, 2015 Ice Age Floods landscape explored in lecture, bus tour Reader photo: Dry Falls Lake, Wash, shown about 13,000 years after the Ice Age Floods.

Beneath the vast, frigid expanse of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, a scientific breakthrough has unearthed a relic from an age when the now icy continent of Antarctica teemed with river networks ...

We’re technically in the midst of an ice age now, living through an interglacial that started about 11,000 years ago. The previous one, known as the late Paleozoic ice age, spanned roughly 340 ...

Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North America's vast assemblage of large animals -- including such iconic creatures as mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, ground sloths ...

Ice Age Floods landscape explored in lecture, bus tour Fri., May 8, 2015 Reader photo: Dry Falls Lake, Wash, shown about 13,000 years after the Ice Age Floods. X ...