Cold-adapted animals started to evolve 2.6 million years ago when the permanent ice at the poles became more prevalent. There followed a time when the continental ice sheets expanded and contracted ...

A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to ...

In addition to testing hundreds of smart devices, she has also tested dozens of ice cream sandwiches. Whether it’s chocolatey and creamy or kind of cardboard-y, there’s something fantastic ...

A new archaeology is being developed based on evidence of human activity in the Earth’s sedimentary record, and ...

Long before the dinosaurs, Earth went through a period of extreme cold that lasted over 300 million years. The Huronian ...

Researchers have recovered Homo erectus bones from the seafloor, which points to an unknown hominin population hunting on ...

Paul Wilcox, a geologist at the University of Innsbruck, has discovered the first land-based evidence of meltwater pulses ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...

Archaeologists uncover ancient settlement on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, revealing early human survival and resilience in ...

Stone tools found on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, are of a style that flourished 12,000 years ago, when the Earth was plunged ...