Climate change is weakening a key ocean current to the point of collapse, according to a new study. As shell layers provide an annual record of ocean conditions, scientists were able to study records ...

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a new study is rewriting that history. Utilizing ancient DNA and reliable ...

As Ice Age glaciers melted, Europe’s tundra became forest, and hunter-gatherers adapted to new landscapes. The Mesolithic saw ...

New research shows that hippos lived in central Europe tens of thousands of years longer than previously thought. Ancient DNA and radiocarbon dating confirm they survived in Germany’s Upper Rhine ...

Researchers had long assumed that central European hippos went extinct at the onset of the Weichselian glaciation.

A recent study published in Nature Communications has found the first-known evidence of human beings manufacturing tools out of whale bones. Throughout 26 rock shelters and caves within northern Spain ...

Glaciers hold layers of history preserved in ice, offering unique insights into Earth's past that can also help us interpret the future. Trapped amidst the frozen water are microscopic deposits of ...

During the last Ice Age, these valleys were part of a vast lowland plain connecting Anatolia to Europe. When the world warmed and the ice melted, the advancing sea covered this corridor, leaving ...

While the nation looks appalled at the smoke from firecrackers enveloping the national capital post Diwali, new research ...

The North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre moves heat from the tropics to the North Atlantic, and it is a part of a much larger network ...