More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

Thousands of years before stone houses or mud bricks, Ice Age humans in Ukraine were building shelters out of mammoth bones. A new study reveals that some of these structures, made from the remains of ...

Hundreds of millions of Americans are presently besieged by a massive arctic blast and winter storm. Luckily for them, it will only be temporary. That wasn't the case 20,000 years ago... Between ...

In Florida, archaeologists are investigating a site that a century ago sparked a scientific controversy. Today, it's just a strip of land near an airport. But in 1915, it was a spot that became ...

The Ice Age (and its resulting changes in climate) was among one of the harshest periods on Earth. During an ice age, the earth experiences colder temperatures than normal as well as glacial expansion ...

Amateur paleontologist Jason Howery discovered the 92-pound femur of an Ice Age mammoth in a lake in Nodaway County, Missouri ...

Statistical analysis reveals ancient bone carvings hold complex information rivaling early Mesopotamian scripts.

Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being ...