In recent years, curious finds by quarry workers in gravel pits near Grunthal have led to some remarkable discoveries about ...

Hidden beneath the surface, a pristine underwater cave can preserve traces of vanished worlds with a clarity that dry land ...

Angela Fitzgerald explores Interstate Park's Ice Age geology and 125-year history. Shaped by Ice Age glaciers, Interstate Park is Wisconsin's oldest state park. Angela speaks with property supervisor ...

Far below the surface of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, a flooded labyrinth of limestone tunnels has quietly guarded one of the ...

A chance find of an unstudied Antarctic sediment core has led University of Otago researchers to flip our understanding of how often ice ages occurred in Antarctica. Lead author Dr Christian Ohneiser, ...

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL–The widely accepted theory that changes in Earth’s orbit drive cycles of glaciation can’t account for an early thawing of glaciers from the next-to-last ice age, according to ...

Entering Ohio State University’s Orton Geological Museum, you are confronted with an imposing skeleton. Standing 7 feet tall on its hind legs, its outstretched arms end in long, sharp claws. It is a ...

A pattern of encroaching and retreating ice sheets during and between ice ages has been shown to match certain orbital parameters of Earth around the sun, leading to researchers being able to predict ...

Editor’s note: Opinion content is solely the opinion of the author and not the Daily Journal. Encyclopedia Britannica states that an ice age is a prolonged period of reduced temperature on the Earth’s ...

It's called the Meghalayan, and it was officially added this week to the International Geologic Time Scale. The scale divides the history of the Earth into eons, eras, periods, epochs and ages, the ...

A chance find of an unstudied Antarctic sediment core has led researchers to flip our understanding of how often ice ages occurred in Antarctica. A chance find of an unstudied Antarctic sediment core ...