Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic ...

Giant Beavers the Size of Black Bears Once Roamed North America Vanished Suddenly 10,000 Years Ago, Scientists Know Why Giant ...

Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according ...

Scientists found that sea levels rose rapidly 11,700 years ago due to melting ice sheets and sudden lake drainage.

A new study published in Nature provides key insights into sea level rise after the last ice age, around 11,700 years ago.

During the last ice age, massive continental ice sheets up to five km high covered much of North America and northern Europe (the Laurentide and Fennoscandian ice sheets, respectively).

Scholars generally agree that North America witnessed some rapid climate adjustments as it shook off the Ice Age beginning about ... very able thinkers over the last half century or so, and ...

During the present ice age, glaciers have advanced and retreated over 20 times, often blanketing North America with ice ... role in cooling trends over the last 60 million years, and, in ...

Earth's last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago and a new study predicts the next one should be 10,000 years away. But the researchers say record rates of fossil fuel burning that are ...

The last known living pair were killed in 1844 in Iceland. Watch Ice Bridge on The Nature of Things to learn more about ice age North America and a hypothesis that could change the story of human ...

These human ancestors lived during the Ice Age over 20,000 years ago ... Were the Solutreans inventive enough to cross the North Atlantic to land in North America? The Nature of Things documentary ...