The Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium in Highland Park is welcoming some new — well, actually really, really old — animals. More than ...

Evidence from a prehistoric site at the shore of the Dnister river in modern-day Ukraine shows that people living during the ...

The unexpected discovery of Greenland rocks in Iceland hints that a centuries-long cold snap may have helped finish off the ...

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...

Glaciers are some of our planet’s oldest inhabitants, but during several icy periods, they covered much more of Earth’s ...

Apr. 14, 2025 — Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools -- it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of people in the Ice Age. However, it is puzzling ...

Researchers in Vienna found three fireplaces from the coldest period of the Ice Age, also the most mysterious.

For decades, scientists puzzled over two key climate mysteries. What sparked the formation of Earth’s vast ice sheets during ...

While other ancient climate records exist, only the ancient ice near the poles holds a perfect record of the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide levels and temperature. Receive a weekly dose of ...

He was moved to a detention center in Farmville, Virginia, in the middle of the night, and then to an ICE office in Richmond ... who stepped foot in this country at age nine, only to be deported ...

At the western edge of the Mediterranean basin, a narrow land bridge once sealed off the Atlantic. We now call it the Gibraltar strait but 5.33 million years ago, it used to be a land bridge ...

Blue Origin's all-female flight reminds us that there's a long line of women who have been making history in space. D.W.’s output alone makes him one of this century’s most influential people ...