New studies show how algae grows on ice and snow, creating “dark zones” that exacerbate melting in the consequential region.

For a long time, scientists thought there was a hard limit to hopping. Go beyond a certain body weight, the logic went, and ...

A new species of amphibian that lived 150 million years ago has been discovered in Portugal. The tiny animal was one of the ...

A team of scientists from the University of Manchester have uncovered some of the earliest evidence of advanced, camera-like ...

This year at the Tucson gem shows, you can see everything from a complete woolly rhino fossil, to large silver specimens on ...

Hundreds of millions of Americans are presently besieged by a massive arctic blast and winter storm. Luckily for them, it ...

Dinosaurs dominate the imagination, but Earth’s deep history is crowded with other rulers, from armored fish and giant ...

The last ice age did not shut down Atlantic ocean currents, and that discovery may help explain future climate risks.

In 1978, residents in the small community of Winameg in rural northwest Ohio discovered several bones of a mammal dating back ...

Previous research indicated that kangaroos weighing more than about 350 pounds would rupture their ankle tendons if they tried to hop. The largest of the Ice Age kangaroos, Procoptodon goliah, which ...

New fossil discoveries reveal that colossal kangaroos from Australia’s Ice Age could still bounce across the landscape, despite their size.

The Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County Thursday announced its largest-ever donation, which will be used to establish the Samuel Oschin Global Center for Ice Age Research. The philanthropic ...