As I am writing further on the application of the terms “Pliocene” and “Pleistocene” to various deposits in East Anglia, I should like to remove at once this unfortunate misrepresentation ...

The last glacial maximum, which lasted from 26,500 to 19,000 years ago, was the most severe phase of the Late Pleistocene ice age. During this period, massive ice sheets and polar ice caps covered ...

"The Tibetan Plateau was previously thought to be uninhabitable during the last glacial maximum," said Li. Evidence found in the region shows that humans lived on the Tibetan Plateau before and after ...

A fossil Pleistocene-age hominin jawbone discovered in Taiwan has now been identified as belonging to a Denisovan, according to a new paleoproteomic analysis of the remains. The findings provide ...

We are researching the cause of megafaunal extinction in the last major extinction event. Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared during the transition from the last glaciation to the present ...

The paleontologists determined the cub to be 35,000 to 37,000 years old − from the late Pleistocene epoch, more commonly ...

The Ice Age franchise is a popular animated film series produced by Blue Sky Studios, centering around a group of prehistoric ...

Learn more about the time period that took place 488 to 443 million ... This heralded a 20-million-year ice age during which shallow, life-rich seas shrank away. Life at the start of the ...

Hoping to find evidence that mammoths, camels and other Pleistocene (ice age) animals coexisted with humans, Shutler and a team of 21 archeologists spent months living in tents in the desert ...