More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

Hundreds of millions of Americans are presently besieged by a massive arctic blast and winter storm. Luckily for them, it will only be temporary. That wasn't the case 20,000 years ago... Between ...

Thousands of years before stone houses or mud bricks, Ice Age humans in Ukraine were building shelters out of mammoth bones. A new study reveals that some of these structures, made from the remains of ...

The Ice Age (and its resulting changes in climate) was among one of the harshest periods on Earth. During an ice age, the earth experiences colder temperatures than normal as well as glacial expansion ...

Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being ...