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, a study published in the ...

Scientists have uncovered the remains of a vast animal community that lived in the European Arctic 75,000 years ago. The bones of 46 types of animals – including mammals, fish and birds – were ...

Some of the key samples in the study came from the La Brea Tar Pits in Southern California, where researchers analyzed ancient juniper wood preserved in tar. The team found clear signs of elevated ...

For fifty years, a small stone sat on display in a German museum. Catalogued in the 1970s as a simple “oil lamp” from the end of the Ice Age, it drew little attention. But when archaeologists looked ...