Crystals inside a prehistoric bone rewrote scientists’ estimates of the age of the archaeological site, suggesting that the ...

A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to survive the cold during the ice age. A team of palaeontologists and ...

Archaeologists have uncovered sophisticated stone tools in central China crafted by Homo juluensis during a harsh ice age 146,000 years ago, challenging long-held views that innovation flourished ...

Studies of tens of thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California have found no clear evidence of any of the species evolving in response to falling temperatures as ice sheets spread ...