Large changes in global sea level, fueled by fluctuations in ice sheet growth and decay, occurred throughout the last ice age ...

Sea levels rose and fell many times during the ice age, showing ice sheets were larger and more active much earlier than once believed.

An Ice Age giant was tumbling around North America during the Late Pleistocene. About the size of a bear, it was actually a ...

A bone fragment led Uruguayan paleontologists to reconstruct the existence of a colossal vulture, larger than the Andean ...

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study.

Large changes in global sea level, fueled by fluctuations in ice sheet growth and decay, occurred throughout the last ice age, rather than just toward the end of that period.    The findings represent ...

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected ...

Prologue : Mossel Bay, South Africa -- pt. 1. How the Pleistocene got its ice -- 1. Rift -- African rift -- Renaissance rift -- Past imperfect -- 2. Ice -- Ice Age -- The ice cometh and goeth -- ...

Archaeologists outside of Rome uncover ancient heavy-duty tools made from elephant bones over 400,000 years ago.

Stretching from western Anatolia to southeastern Europe, this previously unknown land bridge may have been a migration route ...

While more evidence is needed to link paleo-Americans to Japan, it is possible that they came by boat instead of crossing the ...