Our planet’s last glacial period (colloquially known as the Ice Age) began around 115,000 years ago and lasted for over 103,000 years of the Pleistocene Epoch. During this time, ...

Natural cycles in Earth's rotational axis and its orbit around the sun drive climatic changes, and now researchers have ...

For millions of years, Earth's climate has been driven by natural cycles linked to its orbit, shifting between ice ages and warm interglacial periods. A new study has uncovered a clear, predictable ...

An ice age should begin in about 10,000 years ... “It is quite hard to believe that the pattern has not been seen before.” The Milankovitch theory, which was proposed a century ago, says ...

Before Ice Age Fossils State Park, there was the ‘Big Dig’ — PHOTOS Before Ice Age Fossils State Park was even an idea, there was the Big Dig. From October 1962 to January 1963 ...

Stygobromus canadensis is believed to have survived since before the glaciation of the surrounding landscape during the last ice age. A US Coast Guard rescue swimmer was lowered to pull the woman ...

Forty million years before the first dinosaurs evolved ... And at that time, the Earth was nearing the end of an ice age. The swampy land near the equator was drying up and becoming more forested ...