Imagine a mammoth, grazing 20,000 years ago in the steppe-tundra—a vast and frigid grassland where plants grew slowly under a frigid, low-carbon atmosphere. The mammoth tramples saplings ...

MANHATTAN, Kan. -- A recent study in the journal Nature finds that nearly 50,000 years ago during the ice age, the landscape was not as drab as once thought -- it was filled with colorful wildflowers.

The muskox is a living relic of the Ice Age, built to endure the harshest conditions of the Arctic tundra. With their thick coats, powerful frames, and dramatic head-to-head battles, these ancient ...

Jared Wildenradt has hiked the Ice AgeTrail nine times. Lisa Siewert is mapping the geologic highlights of the path. They ...

A large-scale study of fossil human teeth from Ice Age Europe shows that climate ... "The deteriorating climate caused a shift in vegetation from steppe to a predominantly tundra landscape, ...

The retreat of Arctic glaciers is exposing landscapes that haven't seen the sun for nearly 120,000 years. These rocky vistas have very likely been covered in ice since the Eemian, a period in ...

The present-day landscape across New York was sculpted by powerful ice sheet forces and catastrophic glacial meltwater flooding. Recently available, freely-accessible high-resolution digital terrain ...

Researchers test 3D ice printing to build facilities during military deployments in arctic regions. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap messages Get the USA TODAY app ...

Archaeologists and First Nations communities uncover 693 Ice Age-era stone artifacts in a high-altitude Blue Mountains cave, ...

This is not a traditional story. Not many names or dates, so don't worry. It's also not incredibly timely, But it's about an ice age Steppe bison And a man whose thought process defies me. Let's ...

During the Ice Age's coldest period, known as the Last Glacial Maximum, ice sheets called continental glaciers covered half of Europe, with much of the rest in tundra conditions with frozen subsoil.