New research reveals humans lived in prehistoric Iberia’s highlands during the Ice Age, overturning long-held assumptions.

First, what is an ice age? It’s when the Earth has cold temperatures for a long time – millions to tens of millions of years – that lead to ice sheets and glaciers covering large areas of its surface.

Humans likely left a lot of archaeological evidence along the Bering Land Bridge when they crossed from Asia to Alaska during the last ice age. But will we ever be able to dive down to examine it?

If the route between the two major North American ice sheets didn’t fully open until about 13,000 years ago, how did early Homo sapiens travel from Alaska down into the Americas and even to ...

A new study challenges longstanding assumptions about human habitation in the interior landscapes of prehistoric Iberia during the Ice Age. Led by Francisco Javier Aragoncillo and published in the ...

researchers are hoping to locate sites smothered under sediment since the last Ice Age. As scientists work on more discoveries, Ayvalık’s story becomes richer — not only as an archaeological site, but ...

Stone tools reveal that the First Americans followed a coastal route from East Asia, linking both sides of the Pacific during the Ice Age.

A small blood gene difference made Neanderthal pregnancies with modern humans risky, possibly contributing to their disappearance.

A pair of 14,000-year-old "puppies" found melting out of the permafrost in Siberia have undergone genetic testing, proving they were actually wolf cub sisters and not domesticated dogs as was ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. How many ice ages has the Earth had, and could ...