Archaeologists believe that Homo sapiens in Europe during the Upper Paleolithic period (between 45,000 and 10,000 years ago) used fire in several different ways. “Fire was not just about keeping warm; ...

Grebey is a contributor for TIME. Alex Lawther as Hermit, Sydney Chandler as Wendy in Alien: Earth Grebey is a contributor for TIME. Viewers of the new series Alien: Earth were probably expecting to ...

New research suggests early humans hunted and ate mammoths, as well as elk and bison, to a lower degree. Leonello Calvetti / Science Photo Library via Getty Images When Earth was frozen over during ...

Large changes in global sea level, fueled by fluctuations in ice sheet growth and decay, occurred throughout the last ice age, rather than just toward the end of that period, a study published in the ...

New geological data has given more insight into the rate and magnitude of global sea level rise following the last ice age, about 11,700 years ago. This information is of great importance to ...