How did woolly mammoths survive the last ice age? And how thick was the ice over New York City? Test your knowledge by taking ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million ...

The skeletal remains of a horse unearthed in Utah thought to date to the last ice age are actually much younger.

During the last ice age, massive continental ice sheets up to five km high covered much of North America and northern Europe (the Laurentide and Fennoscandian ice sheets, respectively).

Research: Ancient Alaskans were fishing for salmon 11,500 years ago Alaska researchers turn up 12,300-year-old artwork How Alaskans survived the last Ice Age Remains of Ice Age infants found at ...

A core of ice extracted from Antarctica had literally frozen in time the climate of the planet going back nearly 70,000 years.

During the end of the last Ice Age, caribou are known to have similarly migrated along a still-frigid land bridge that is now submerged beneath Lake Huron.(Paul Nicklen/National Geographic ...

Following the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the levels of the North Sea began to rise as waters formerly locked up in great ice sheets melted. Sometime after about 8200 BC the ...

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

Woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) are emblematic creatures from the last ice age. | Credit: LEONELLO CALVETTI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images Throughout much of Earth's history ...

Before the Holocene, the last glacial period lasted about 110,000 years.It is often referred to as "the last ice age" and is best known for hosting now-extinct megafauna, such as woolly mammoths ...