When landscapes change, exotic species take advantage of new habitats. Such a pulse of colonisation coincided with the Ice ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

The skeletal remains of a horse unearthed in Utah thought to date to the last ice age are actually much younger.

New University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka research shows Aotearoa has been increasingly accepting new bird species from around the world since the start of the Ice Age, offering clues into future ...

Global warming and mass extinctions: What we can learn from plants from the last ice age New analysis methods, applied to ancient plant DNA, reveal how hard-hit plants were and are by global ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. “After the last Ice Age, there was population growth, and that may have led to conflicts over resources and territories,” added ...

“After the last Ice Age, there was population growth, and that may have led to conflicts over resources and territories,” Marginedas concluded in the release.

film and games art courses helped to recreate environments and animals from the last great freeze, known as the Pleistocene Epoch. The project also explored the creation and animation of these ice age ...

“Surviving the final years of the last Ice Age required garments with fur fringes and tightly spaced seams. Here we have evidence of animal furs and sewing in a single type of artifact.” ...

With centuries’ old primary source documents, a team of researchers in Romania are exploring how a region best known for vampire legends was drastically altered by the effects of the Little Ice Age.

If the AMOC collapses, middle and northern Europe might be in for a new ice age as temperatures could dip by up to 10 degrees Celsius on average. But it’s not just a problem for Europe, it would be a ...

Humanity and fire have been reforging the Earth since the end of the last glaciation ... may have even helped nudge the planet into the Little Ice Age from the mid-16th to mid-19th centuries.