The Robberg is one of southern Africa's most distinctive and widespread stone tool technologies. Robberg tools—which we found ...

Archaeologists and First Nations communities uncover 693 Ice Age-era stone artifacts in a high-altitude Blue Mountains cave, ...

First, what is an ice age? It’s when the Earth has cold temperatures for a long time – millions to tens of millions of years – that lead to ice sheets and glaciers covering large areas of its surface.

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. How many ice ages has the Earth had, and could ...

Gray rocks uncovered in northern Nunavik, Quebec, Canada may be the ultimate primordial find. The stones date back 4.16 ...

A group of scientists have found an astonishing diversity of microorganisms in tiny pools of melted ice in Antarctica.

Scientists from MIT studied how organisms live in modern Antarctic meltwater ponds to predict how similar organisms would ...

Scientists from the University of York confirm that the well-preserved Tumat puppies were actually ancient wolf cubs - not ...

When the Earth froze over, where did life shelter? MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted ice that dotted the planet's icy surface. In a study appearing today in Nature ...

Scientists explore the mystery of Neanderthal extinction. A new theory links their disappearance to the Laschamp event. This ...