The mountain pygmy possum, a tiny nocturnal marsupial, was once known only from Ice Age fossils. Today, we know where its ...
By determining which ice sheets melted to create a colossal increase in sea levels 14,500 years ago, scientists hope to ...
Ötzi is believed to have lived around 3,300 BCE, during the Copper Age, a time when humans were transitioning from the Stone ...
"The remains are highly evocative because they enable us to make almost face-to-face connection with animals that are tens of ...
With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and Sid the giant sloth – find an orphaned ...
Some movies are about history, but others deal with matters that predate history. There’s something fascinating about prehistoric times, and it gets even more intriguing when you bring those ...
"Such a transition to a glacial state in 10,000 years' time is very unlikely to happen, because human emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere have already diverted the climate from its ...
As Shakespeare put it, we all have our entrances and our exits on this grand stage we call life, and now researchers have identified the specific point in middle-age when our brain cells show the ...
Reggae Rise Up Florida: The festival running Thursday-Sunday, March 13-16, has a loaded lineup for its 10th year with Sting and Shaggy kicking things off as headliners Thursday in Vinoy Park in St ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
A popular pastime among Americans of a certain age is to wage an internal debate about when to claim Social Security: At age 62? Sixty-five? Seventy? In purely monetary terms, as it turns out ...
"The Age of Disclosure" – billed as the biggest UFO documentary of all time – features shocking claims from 34 senior U.S. officials who are convinced that the government has covered up the ...