Nearly 10,000 years ago, Earth came out of its most recent ice age. Vast, icy swaths of land around the poles thawed, melting the glaciers that had covered them for nearly 100,000 years.

From what causes ice ages and how many we’ve had, to the species that thrived and the ones that died, here’s what you need to know about the ice age, adapted from an episode of The List Show ...

Entering Ohio State University’s Orton Geological Museum ... of ground sloth that inhabited North America during the Ice Age. In life it would have weighed about 2,400 pounds, average for ...

But just how severe was this Late Antique Little Ice Age? Pretty severe, the new Geology study finds. Showing that large, round rocks — or cobbles — on the coast of Iceland came all the way from the ...

Geological evidence found in Iceland indicates ... "In this way, it seems likely that the Late Antique Little Ice Age helped tip the balance at a moment when the Eastern Empire was stretched ...

A trio of researchers has found evidence of the impact of the Late Antique Little Ice Age on Iceland almost 1,500 years ago. In their paper published in the journal Geology, Christopher Spencer ...

Our current geologic epoch, the Holocene, began 11,700 years ago with the end of the last big ice age. The panel’s roughly three dozen scholars appear close to recommending that, actually ...

While it was not as intense as other major ice ages, some researchers have argued that this geologic era helped usher in the final days of Rome. Others, meanwhile, contend that the Late Antique ...

Ice age' can refer to different kinds of events ... Other processes, including geological carbon cycling and changes in Earth's orientation to the sun, can also cause Earth's climate to warm ...

The evidence of ice age trauma can best be observed up close ... “People come from all over the world in geology to look at the features. They know what river valleys look like.