Scientists say small changes in the way the Earth orbits the sun hold the key in major global changes in climate, like ice ...
The Earth has gone through successive glacial and interglacial periods for about 2.5 million years. A new study reveals when ...
A researcher with UW collaborated on the project to come up with the most precise predictive Ice Age model to date.
The world’s first saber-toothed cat mummy has been found in Siberia The world’s first saber-toothed cat mummy has been found in Siberia The Little Ice Age was brutal. How did people survive?
Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images Earth's last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago and a new study predicts the next one should be 10,000 years away. But the researchers say record rates of fossil ...
"Global cooling was real ... Sea ice extent, or area, has not expanded at either pole since 2007, Walter Meier, a research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, told USA TODAY.
But humans living in ice age North America had to deal with the real thing. Dire wolves (Canis dirus) were a canine species that hunted the plains and forests. They were similar to modern grey ...
During the last ice age, massive continental ice sheets up ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 97, 1331-1334 (2000). Birchfield, G.