The giant ice sheet formed during a period of the last ice age known as the mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT) that lasted between 1.3 million and 700,000 years ago. (The ice age itself began ...

Air and particles formed hundreds of thousands of years ago are trapped in the ice What is probably the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2m years ago, has been dug out from deep within Antarctica.

1.4 million-year-old jaw that was 'a bit weird for Homo' turns out to be from never-before-seen human relative Dolní Věstonice Portrait Head: The oldest known human portrait in the world Latest ...

Manny the mammoth, Sid the loquacious sloth, and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger go on a comical quest to return a human baby back to his father, across a world on the brink of an ice age.

Jan. 30, 2025 — A relatively small amount of groundwater trickling through Alaska's tundra is releasing huge quantities of carbon into the ocean, where it can contribute to climate ...

An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that dates back 1.2 million ... see the ice age as we drilled ...

The Ice Age Movie Collection Release into theaters by Twentieth Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios.

Scientists have successfully extracted what is likely the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2 million years ... The core was discovered by researchers as part of the fourth campaign of the ...

Drilling vertically into ice and extracting a core is akin to measuring how old a tree is by counting a stump’s rings. But ice contains more information than just age ... part in one of the earlier ...

Antarctic ice, however, has been at it for over a million. An international team of scientists has extracted a 1.74-mile-long (2.8 kilometers) ice core in Antarctica, hitting the frozen continent ...

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 .