More than 8,000 years ago, as the planet thawed following the end of the last ice age, Northern Europe abruptly cooled. New research reveals that Arctic ice melt weakened a critical ocean current, ...

The Mal’ta site in Siberia stands as one of the most advanced Ice Age settlements ever discovered, dating back as far as 25,000 years. Excavations have revealed bone houses, sophisticated blades, ...

A recent study published in Nature Communications has found the first-known evidence of human beings manufacturing tools out of whale bones. Throughout 26 rock shelters and caves within northern Spain ...

For decades, we believed that outside ice ages Europe was mostly covered by dense forest before the arrival of modern humans. Now, a new study shows that there was far more open and semi-open ...

Research suggests cannibalism was a funerary rite for the Magdalenian people in northwest Europe, but others preferred to bury their dead. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Citizen paleontologists” can keep the fossils they uncover around Europe’s largest port. All the professionals ask is that ...

COPENHAGEN - Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat, enabling its government to strategize for ...

Coloe Fossae was shaped by powerful tectonics, which stretched and cracked Mars's crust, causing chunks of ground to collapse ...

Climate change may seem a uniquely 21st-century concern, but people have been wrestling with the idea for a long time.