At the margins of an ice patch on the Beartooth Plateau, a forest is frozen in time. "We don't think about how dynamic that alpine ecosystem has been through time: people were using it ...

A melting ice patch in ... species that can be found in the region today. This is because the global climate went through a warm period between the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ...

The Kostenki 11 site, located near the Don River, just 300 kilometers from Moscow, is one of the most significant Upper ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

A rare Arctic bird found deceased last week in southwest Kansas will become part of the collection at Lawrence's Kansas ...

It was found ... ice floe that is drifting about 5 miles (8 kilometers) a day, creating difficult conditions for recovery crews, said National Transportation Safety Board chair Jennifer Homendy ...

Many of the marks on the human bones were found to be similar to those on animal bones – indicating ... much of Europe was covered in ice. During the ice age, which ended about 11,500 years ...

Guests reach Spirit Bear Lodge by flying from Vancouver to the small airport at Bella Bella (scheduled for 90 minutes but it can take longer), then transfering to a boat for a two-hour journey north ...