Elasmotherium might just be the closest thing we’ve ever had to a real-life Mudhorn. Towering and powerful, this Ice Age giant was a prehistoric rhinoceros with a massive horn and a presence that ...

Archaeological records indicate that prehistoric people in Europe relied on fire throughout the Ice Age—but the evidence ...

The unexpected discovery of Greenland rocks in Iceland hints that a centuries-long cold snap may have helped finish off the ...

A team of international scientists, led by researchers from the University of Southampton, has traced strange, out-of-place ...

Ice cores that record 1.2 million years of Earth’s atmosphere are on their way to Europe to be analysed, and an Australian ...

Much of Earth's heat uptake is passed to the ocean, making ocean heat content key for understanding long-term climate ...

If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

Scientists have made a “sensational” find at one of Austria’s most famous Palaeolithic sites, shedding light on daily life before the peak of the last Ice Age. They discovered two distinct ...

Case in point: It’s fairly common for adults to tell well-behaved children they’re “mature for their age.” And while the phrase itself isn’t harmful, the message can sometimes carry a deeper and more ...

They found that unlike glucose, the ketone molecules effectively stabilised deteriorating brain networks with effects that differed significantly across critical age transition points. For ...

But underneath all that melting ice is something the whole world wants: the rare earth elements that make modern society — and the clean energy revolution — possible. That could soon turn ...