At the end of the last Ice Age, massive floods tore across entire regions, ripping landscapes down to bare bedrock and leaving behind scars that still look unreal today. Evidence suggests some of this ...

Humans may have returned to Britain far earlier than scientists once believed — not long after the last ice sheet began ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Research reveals that Serbian cave systems show evidence of human occupation during the second half of the last ice age. Humans may have been ...

A comprehensive new review paper reveals the staggering loss of biodiversity among island land snails globally. Lead author Robert Cowie of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's School of Ocean and ...

As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that helped release long-stored carbon back into the atmosphere. Deep-sea ...

When the peaks of the Sangre de Cristo mountains become snowcapped, a flurry of bird adaptations sweeps across the foothills. We marvel at the continent-spanning journeys of migratory birds seeking ...