Almost 98 percent of Greenland is currently covered in ice, but new research suggests that it was nearly completely ice-free less than a million years ago. Throughout the years, experts have ...

Under certain conditions fossils might not have been created. Parts of organisms ... tar pits, or in ice. Amber close amberHardened tree resin. is a substance that is formed from hardened tree ...

Thanks to climate change, thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic has revealed the buried remnant of a glacier that’s 770,000 years old.

"Termite fossils are very common, but this piece was unique because it contains a pair. I have seen hundreds of fossils with termites enclosed, but never a pair," explains Dr. Bucek. After ...

These key adaptations coincided with the colder phases of the last Ice Ages, in which snow leopards ... of Algar da Manga Larga." This fossil has been now revealed to be an unexpected member ...

Millions of years ago, mammoths – which were massive creatures covered in thick fur – roamed the Earth’s frozen ... the ice age when sea levels were low. They were presumed to have been ...