It is often referred to as "the last ice age" and is best known for hosting now-extinct megafauna, such as woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius), giant ground sloths and saber-toothed cats.

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud ...

Feb. 12, 2025 — A study gives possible insight into the underprediction of sea ice depletion and the formation of Arctic cyclones. The study could lead to more accurate weather and climate ...

During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called "Quintet." For one small group, this obsession is not enough; they play the game with living pieces .

SARANAC LAKE — Work on the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival Ice Palace started earlier than expected this year. On Friday, the all-volunteer Ice Palace Workers 101 set to work cutting ice blocks ...

The Eye Tooth is named after a climbing area in the Alaska Range like its predecessors, the original Moose’s Tooth Pub and ...

The Magdalenian peoples of the European Ice Age left little of themselves behind. Today, their bones are few and far between, found typically in isolation and in fragments. But the remains from one 18 ...

Tripp Mazzucco has dreamed of owning an ice cream shop for years. A former teacher, Mazzucco spent the last two years teaching Special Education in Charlotte during the school year. But soon, Mazzucco ...

Researchers have discovered huge landforms deep beneath the North Sea that suggest the region was swallowed by a giant ice sheet toward the middle of the last ice age. The scientists captured ...