Landscapes left behind by ancient rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers ...

Landscapes left behind by ancient ­rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers have suggested. In a study published in Nature Geoscience, a team used radio ...

For much of the planet’s recent geological history, ice ages came and went every 41,000 years. Then, during a period ...

The schism in the ice revealed several square miles of the island's surface, which held a large number of whale bones. Some ...

Like the inverse of a butterfly flapping its wings in China, ice cores extracted in Greenland show the rise and fall of ...

Ancient river landscapes buried beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet have been uncovered by radar, revealing vast, flat surfaces formed over 80 million years ago before Antarctica froze. These hidden ...

A new study finds that Neanderthals likely ate decomposing meat crawling with maggots — and the chemical evidence in their ...

The ice cores could offer clues about a period known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition that has long puzzled scientists ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient human migration routes hidden beneath the sea, revealing how early humans moved between ...

Landscapes left behind by ancient rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers ...

A rapidly retreating glacier in the Russian Arctic has revealed an ancient whale graveyard.