Deep in the frozen north of Russia's Sakha Republic lies a place where time is being reversed and a once extinct environment is being brought back to life. How is something like this possible and what ...
Prior to what has come to be known as the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition (MPT), ice ages tended to last on average 40,000 years. After the MPT, they spanned up to 100,000 years.
There are times when the global climate is warmer (interglacial phases ... The last major cold period was known as the Pleistocene, started 2.6 million years ago and ended just 10,000 years ...
Although the D-O climate cycles have now been found in many other climate proxy records around the globe (Voelker 2002), the reason why Earth's climate was so much more variable during the last ...
Thanks to climate change, thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic has revealed the buried remnant of a glacier that’s 770,000 years old.
If a change in climate then reduced the availability ... This gels with recent evidence that shows Pleistocene climate changes were less dramatic in the southern hemisphere, compared to the ...
Wildlife biologists had assumed that climate change transformed ecosystems in ways the giant mammals couldn't adapt to, but ...
Seismic technology has revealed secrets of the Earth from a million years ago. During the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT), the Earth adopted a 100,000-year glacial-interglacial cycle compared to the ...
In this multidisciplinary project, our aim is to combine the methods and data of archeology, biogeography and climate modeling and to find out how the human ecological niche has changed during the ...
Colossal Biosciences is now valued at over $10 billion and is working on ambitious projects to resurrect multiple long ...
Samuel Arman and colleagues’ close examination of tooth microwear among living and extinct kangaroo species suggests that most of the species living in Australia during the Late Pleistocene had ...