A paleontologist from The University of Texas at Austin has discovered the fossilized remains of Ice Age animals that have ...

First, what is an ice age? It’s when the Earth has cold temperatures for a long time – millions to tens of millions of years – that lead to ice sheets and glaciers covering large areas of its surface.

However, sci-fi has the advantage of playing with time, taking known natural — or human-caused — climate interactions and ...

Researchers have identified the long-mysterious Toronto “subway deer” as a previously unknown extinct deer related to the ...

Cosmic dust can tell scientists about how ice covered Earth during the last ice age. This dust is leftover debris from asteroids and comets... What space dust reveals about Earth's ice age Around ...

They don't cause ice ages, but they do control the volume of things like glaciation and the factors that can trigger ice ages. Kane's simulations show that without Mars the frequent and intense ...

Planet Earth used to be something like a cross between a deep freeze and a car crusher. During vast stretches of the planet’s history, oceans from pole to pole were covered with a blanket of ice a ...

A light microscope image of a planktonic foraminifera collected from the water in the Southwest Indian Ocean. (Photo by Tracy Aze, University of Leeds via Courthouse News) (CN) — Carbon is one of the ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. How many ice ages has the Earth had, and could ...