Swinging abyss: Oxygen isotope analysis shows less dynamic Antarctic ice sheet in Oligocene period

Oxygen isotopes data enable researchers to look far back into the geologic past and reconstruct the climate of the past. In ...
Live Science on MSN

Huge ice dome in Greenland vanished 7,000 years ago — melting at temperatures we're racing toward today

Scientists drilled to the bottom of Greenland's 1,600-foot deep Prudhoe Dome and found it disappeared in the early Holocene, ...

Early hominins from Morocco reveal an African lineage near the root of Homo sapiens

An international research team reports the analysis of new hominin fossils from the site of Thomas Quarry I (Casablanca, ...