New geological data has given more insight into the rate and magnitude of global sea level rise following the last ice age, ...

Scientists found that sea levels rose rapidly 11,700 years ago due to melting ice sheets and sudden lake drainage.

Around the world, on separate continents with no contact with each other, multiple groups of ancient humans invented farming ...

As the last ice age was ending, Australian megafauna that included giant kangaroos went extinct, and it is even more depressing than we thought.

The fossil footprints at White Sands National Park have completely rewritten the history of human migration into the Americas. Find out why!

Situated in south-western Norway, north-east of Bergen, Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord ... active glaciation during the Pleistocene ice age. The ice- and wave-polished surfaces of the steep fjord sides ...

A genetic analysis reveals that Fiji’s iguanas are most closely related to lizards living in North America’s deserts. How is ...

The vast frozen terrain of Arctic permafrost thawed several times in North America within the past 1 million years when the world's climate was not much warmer than today, researchers from the United ...

His mother, Astrid Senior, told Newsweek that he was stripped naked, violently interrogated, and later transferred to an ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) detention facility.

But this “golden age” of biomedical research in America appears to be over. NIH-funded research is one of the best investments by the federal government, generating $2.50 in the economy for ...

With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and Sid the giant sloth – find an orphaned ...