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 ...

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).

A study published in the March 2025 issue of the journal Quaternary Environments and Humans offers a deeper understanding of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The last Ice Age was one of the most challenging times on Earth. Using the latest CGI, this 3-part series explores the lives and deaths of the remarkable creatures that inhabited the planet. ABC iview ...

What do we know about them? The 'Solutreans' were an ancient people who lived in what is today Spain, Portugal and southern France during the last Ice Age over twenty thousand years ago.