Million-year-old air preserved in ancient ice holds clues to a mystery that has stumped scientists for decades.

A study of Paleolithic skeletons from Central Europe suggests people's teeth were worn down and crowded together because of ...

A new research suggests that cheek piercings were popular as long ago as 30,000 years, with teenagers and children as young ...

The world’s first saber-toothed cat mummy has been found in Siberia The world’s first saber-toothed cat mummy has been found in Siberia The Little Ice Age was brutal. How did people survive?

Following the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the levels of the North Sea began to rise as waters formerly locked up in great ice sheets melted. Sometime after about 8200 BC the ...

How recent are the patterns we observe today? Are all the subspecies sufficiently distinct and with a unique evolutionary history to warrant their separate conservation? Using ancient DNA, we have ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud ...

The transition in and out of the Late Palaeozoic ice age was one of the biggest climate transitions in Earth’s history, a turning point in the evolution of life and environment. It significantly ...

NARRATOR:Thousands of years ago much of the world was covered in thick layers of ice. It’s been called ‘The Ice Age’. NARRATOR:When the climate got warmer, the ice melted. Then, rising sea ...