Modern humans first arrived in Europe 43,000 years ago during the last ice age. One of the areas where they took up residence was the Swabian Jura in southern Germany. Excavated from the 1860s, six ...

Bill Hatcher Julie Meachen, an expert in Ice Age megafauna, skirts a dirt ledge called “the Saddle” deep inside a remarkable hollow in northern Wyoming known as Natural Trap Cave. She stops to ...

In a remarkable breakthrough for paleontological research, scientists have recently unearthed exceptionally well-preserved bison remains from the Ice Age in Canada’s Yukon Territory. This ...

That expanded by 30 times the number of sequenced Ice Age horse genomes known to science from two to more than 60. The genetic information in those bones revealed a lost “Arctic highway” that ...

Few people expect digging for a road to lead to uncovering Ice Age megafauna. Before skyscrapers, cars or highways, Texas was a land of giants. A highway project in Lubbock uncovered colossal ...

WHEN the first edition of the “Quaternary Ice Age” was published in 1914, it took its place at once as the standard English text-book on the subject. Since then our ideas concerning the ...

The remains of an Ice Age era animal have been unearthed in Lubbock during the ongoing road construction project for Loop 88. Due to Texas having locations where ancient human activity connected ...

A test pit at the excavation on the Isle of Skye reveals sediment layers where Ice Age-era stone tools were discovered. Credit: Karen Hardy et al. / CC BY 4.0 Archaeologists have uncovered the most ...

The ice loss accelerated in the latter half of that period, increasing from an average loss of about 81 billion tons (74 billion metric tons) per year between 2002 and 2010, to a loss of about 157 ...

The Mid-Columbia Basin Old Natural Education Sciences (MCBONES) Research Center Foundation is working to unearth a Columbian Mammoth from the ice age. The tour costs $10 per person. That money ...