ice age

Mysterious fossils of what may be a previously unknown type of human have been uncovered in caves in China, ones that possess a highly unusual mix of bygone and modern human features, scientists reveal. Surprisingly, the fossils are only between 11,500 and 14,500 years old. That means they...

Eight hundred years of learning came unbound: north of December, lit by a sliver of sun, the whitened roofs of Cambridge stood, tented in rows—blank page, blank page. Snow lay dust sheets over the cars: a street of mastodons waiting to thaw. My shoes tried to slip from under me and race the...

20th December 2011 For centuries, scientists and historians have argued over why Stonehenge was built and, even more puzzlingly, how. They are now closer to cracking one aspect of the mystery after working out the exact spot where some of the rocks came from. The 5,000-year-old circle of...

Where can you find pyramids apart from Egypt? Maybe you’ve heard of the Incan pyramids in Peru, the pyramids of Nubia (Sudan), or the ruined pyramids of ancient Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Persia (Iran) known as ziggurats? What you may not know is that the list was expanded in 1987, when dive...

A 3.6-million-year-old woolly rhinoceros fossil discovered in Tibet indicates that some giant mammoths, sloths and saber-tooth cats may have evolved in highlands before the Ice Age, experts say. Paleontologists from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the Chinese Academy of...

A new study into climate change has revealed that Brits may soon be forced to contend with much harsher winters, with as many as one in seven casting the country into sub-zero temperatures for pro-longed periods. A decrease in the sun's solar activity is set to force Brits to contend with...

NASA and the European Space Agency have been warning the world for two years about the approaching catastrophes that may unfold during late 2011 through 2012. Few have been listening. Calling it a "once in a lifetime super solar storm event," NASA warns that killer solar flares can slam the...

Major Earthquake in North America Imminent? USA, Canada & Mexico - Major Earthquake Update: So, another proof that the USGS is hiding the seismic activity, just as shown in my article from November 26, 2010. CLICK HERE TO READ IT! YouTubber 9Nania is a...

Divers carefully place a marker near a human skull found upside down in a large underwater cave near the Caribbean Sea on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula in 2007. Based on the skull's location, the team believes the remains ended up there about 10,000 years ago—just before the then dry cave was...

An archaeological dig in Alaska has uncovered the oldest human remains ever found in Arctic or Subarctic North America – the cremated skeleton of a 3-year-old. The chlid's burned bone fragments were found in a fire pit in the remains of an ancient house near the Tanana River in central Alaska...

A team of paleodentists of sorts has examined fossilized horse teeth from as far as 55.5 million years ago and found a timeline of changing tooth features that matches up with the climate record. The changing climate was responsible for major changes over time in the horses' diets, which were...

With a dental pick in hand, Karin Rice delicately scraped off a clump of asphalt from a pelvic bone belonging to a horse that roamed Los Angeles tens of thousands of years ago. Like many unsuspecting creatures of the last Ice Age, the horse probably stopped to take a sip of spring water only to...

21 mins ago MEXICO CITY – An alleged Zetas drug cartel member arrested in the killing of a U.S. immigration agent told soldiers Wednesday the attack was a mistake, saying gunmen mistook the officer's SUV for a vehicle used by a rival gang, the army said. Julian Zapata Espinoza — known by the...

February 4th, 2011 08:15 AM 'At first glance it looks like a graphic from a Discovery Channel programme about a distant ice age. But this astonishing picture shows the world as it is today - with half the Northern Hemisphere covered with snow and ice. The image was released by the National...

JoNova Feb 1, 2011 Dr Noor van Andel spoke at the Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI), provocatively concluding there is no observational evidence for the influence of CO2 on past or present climate. He has released a high caliber slide set. He is the former head of research at Akzo Nobel...

A man I know named Watters commanded riverboats during the war in Vietnam. He drilled through the heart of the Mekong. Now he teaches peace studies to wide-eyed kids, the arc of his life having turned him this way, utterly, as if by design. They stare at him, silent as fish. He says he is...

What californiaasanisland.org is All About "Some time in the past, before the ice age, most of western North America (and probably the whole world) was accurately mapped by a technologically advanced people. Who these people were and what technology they used is lost to us, but their...

Russian scientists are very close to a mysterious lake in Antarctica. Only five meters until they reach this lake. Fifteen million years old maybe more, the location is deep beneath the icy crust of Antarctica. This frozen lake might contain prehistoric or unknown life. Now, Russian scientists...

Chilling future scenario funded by banks & oil companies depicts authoritarian cities where only the wealthy will be allowed to eat meat, drive cars and choose their own career – all in the name of preventing non-existent global warming Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, January...

Mark Sircus IMVA Tuesday, January 4, 2011 Yes, but how can that be? Global warming is in full swing so how can an Ice Age creep or crash in on us?If you are really paying attention to what is happening all around us in the world you will see the shaping story and a tragedy of staggering...