The age of a girl's first period can tell people something about future health. Even early periods within a normal range can impact you later in life. From cancer to metabolic disorders, ...

Wisconsin's Ice Age National Scenic Trail sees almost 4.7 million hikers each year and generates $820 million to the state's tourism economy.

But how did our Ice Age ancestors do it? There actually isn’t much in the archaeological record to help answer that question. “We know that fire was widespread before and after this period, but there ...

Although the archaeological record confirms that hunter-gatherers in Europe built fires throughout the Upper Paleolithic period (45,000 to 10,000 years ago), there is a roughly 7,500-year gap that ...

To make it out of the last ice age alive, our ancestors needed a special set of skills.One of which was harnessing the power of fire.However, not many well-preserved fireplaces dating back to the ...

Surprisingly, however, there is little well-preserved evidence of fire use from the coldest period of the Ice Age -- between 26,500 and 19,000 years ago -- in Europe.

Three major glacier formations during the Pleistocene Ice Age drastically altered the landscape. The Pre-Illinoian glacier (1.2 million years ago) advanced from the north, stopped near Northern ...

These changes serve as the predictors for when an Ice Age can be expected to occur. While these changes occur over a massive timeline when compared to a person’s lifespan, on an astronomical ...

Earth's last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago and a new study predicts the next one should be 10,000 years away.. But the researchers say record rates of fossil fuel burning that are ...

The current period should be a stable interglacial, which means the next ice age would begin in about 10,000 years, the researchers said in their findings. Ice cave. (Getty Images/Gnagel/931543654 ...

Over the past million years, Earth has alternated between ice ages and warm periods. The last ice age, or glacial period, ended about 11,700 years ago.