F. FLINT'S distinguished work in the broad field of glacial geology has been prominent for a generation, and his book is important for that and for other reasons. It deals with the Pleistocene ...

More information: Hong Ao et al, Orbital- and millennial-scale Asian winter monsoon variability across the Pliocene–Pleistocene glacial intensification, Nature Communications (2024). DOI ...

Genetic material from hundreds of mammoths is providing an unprecedented glimpse into their family tree and shows how these ...

The dire wolf is a relative of the now-common gray wolf, with clear differences apparent between the two species' skeletons.

Before that the Ice Ages covered most of the Northern Hemisphere with glaciers. The last of the five major ice ages, called the Pleistocene glaciation, began about 1.5 million years ago.