How did woolly mammoths survive the last ice age? And how thick was the ice over New York City? Test your knowledge by taking ...

Following the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the levels of the North Sea began to rise as waters formerly locked up in great ice sheets melted. Sometime after about 8200 BC the ...

During the last ice age, massive continental ice sheets up to five km high covered much of North America and northern Europe (the Laurentide and Fennoscandian ice sheets, respectively).

Before the Holocene, the last glacial period lasted about 110,000 years.It is often referred to as "the last ice age" and is best known for hosting now-extinct megafauna, such as woolly mammoths ...