Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

According to Live Science, the lakes formed about 20,000 years ago because of a hotspot beneath ... that rise from the middle layer of the Earth. Upon coming in contact with the Earth's crust ...

Earth is currently in an interglacial period, with the last glacial period having peaked around 20,000 years ago. Scientists have previously suggested that Earth's position and angle relative to ...

At White Sands National Park in New Mexico, archaeologists identified 20,000-year-old human footprints ... The team began excavating the site four years ago. In 2023, they dated footprints to ...

During the past billion years, the Earth's climate has fluctuated between ... as the "Ice Age", was at its height approximately 20,000 years ago. Although the exact causes for ice ages, and ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the ... variations in the Earth's orbit around the Sun that recur roughly every 20,000 years. Impressively, the ...

Beginning around 2.5 million years ago, Earth entered an era ... findings to create a baseline of the Earth’s natural climate for the next 10,000-20,000 years by calibrating past changes.

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 ...