They have shown that many species, including humans, expanded their geographical ranges since the height of the last ice age, approximately 20,000 years ago. At this time, European ice sheets ...

While humans did struggle during the Ice Age, other species fared worse, as seen with the extinction of the Neanderthals. Not only did humanity survive, but they also made significant evolutionary ...

"Such a transition to a glacial state in 10,000 years' time is very unlikely to happen, because human emissions of carbon ...

Ancient humans survived on the Tibetan Plateau- the ... was the most severe phase of the Late Pleistocene ice age. During this period, massive ice sheets and polar ice caps covered large portions ...

These human ancestors lived during the Ice Age over 20,000 years ago. What do we know about them? The 'Solutreans' were an ancient people who lived in what is today Spain, Portugal and southern ...

revealing new insights into life during the Ice Age on the Iberian Peninsula. The study described the retrieval of human and animal DNA from 25,000-year-old sediments in the El Mirón cave ...

Advanced radiocarbon dating has provided the most accurate age assessment yet ... implications for decades. One camp argues the Lapedo Child is the progeny of human and Neanderthal parents ...

A strange cast of ferocious predators and giant herbivores lived here during the ice age. Graham Duggan Most archeologists agree that human beings reached North America 14,000 years ago ...

Scientists are uncertain whether the warming climate is to blame for the extinction at the end of the last ice age. At the time, modern humans were rapidly spreading around the globe and some ...

Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.