Almost imperceptibly, but steadily. The surface of the Great Lakes region is still recovering from the aftereffects of the last Ice Age, when woolly mammoths and mastodons grazed on grasslands ...

For many Indigenous peoples, the Great Lakes region is not just a place but a homeland with deep spiritual and ancestral ties. The possibility of underwater Ice Age settlements resonates ...

The warmth of the long summer afternoons of the most recent ice age sent great freshets of glacial meltwater, milky white with suspended rock flour, into Glacial Lake Missoula. Rock flour settled ...

When Louis Agassiz presented the concept of a Great Ice Age to the Swiss Society of Natural Sciences in 1837, his suggestion that the planet had turned colder and then warmed up again was met with ...

And those plants may have caused the next great ice age. Like the Cryogenian glaciation, the Karoo ice age featured two peaks in ice cover that may well have been distinct ice ages. They took ...

One of the most iconic animals of the Great Ice Age was the woolly mammoth, who roamed the chilly tundras throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas millions of years ago. This hairy elephant-like ...

Hominids have been using fire for at least a million years — but scientists have found that human fire-wielding skills during our planet's last great Ice Age became so advanced that they would ...

"The Ice Age trail also tells an important story about the history of Wisconsin and the abundant natural resources that have shaped our great state," Baldwin said. "Literally running through the ...