A fossil bed dating back 8,000–12,000 years has been discovered in Panaiyur, Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, after torrential rains exposed it in 2023. The Zoological Survey of India confirmed the ...

Earth's climate changed dramatically during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene 130,000 to 7,000 years ago, when cold glacial cycles transitioned into the current warmer interglacial. Such a ...

In Bergen, Maaike Zwier analyzed pollen in sediment cores from lakes on Kerguelen Islands and South Georgia. In this way, she can say something about the local climate going back almost 12,000 years.

A unique collection of prehistoric bowhead whale bones, dating back 11,000 years, reveals a previously untold story of the relative impacts of humans on nature. The time series of ancient fossils show ...

Studying microscopic layers of dirt dug from the Tam Pà Ling cave site in northeastern Laos has provided a team of Flinders University archaeologists and their international colleagues further ...

What for decades looked like a remarkable woolly mammoth discovery in Alaska has turned into an even stranger scientific mystery. Researchers say fossilized backbones — not a complete skeleton — ...