Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

Recent news articles and broadcasts have claimed that manatees are not native to Florida or only arrived on Florida's west ...

Dr Jodie Fisher from Plymouth University visited Collyer’s to deliver a fantastic workshop on using microfossils to plot ...

When you're talking about regular weather cycles, it's most likely that you've heard of El Niño and La Niña. The latter is ...

How did woolly mammoths survive the last ice age? And how thick was the ice over New York City? Test your knowledge by taking our quiz.

We currently live in an interglacial period called the Holocene epoch that began around 11,700 years ago. Before the Holocene, the last glacial period lasted about 110,000 years .

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suggests that hominins may have dispersed during interglacial periods when conditions were more favorable. Finding such ancient hominins capable of exploiting temperate and seasonal environments ...

While climate projections suggest permafrost will completely thaw in many regions by the end of the century, this preserved glacier has persisted through interglacial periods that were warmer than ...

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