Ice Age

The nematode, officially named Panagrolaimus kolymaensis, was discovered at a depth of 40 meters inside a fossilized burrow of Arctic squirrels.

Footprints of adults and children alongside drag marks indicate Ice Age families used travois to transport goods.

For the first time, researchers managed to recover DNA from sediment at a Cantabrian site.

Evidence suggests humans scavenged mammoth bones from existing bone beds over centuries.

A new research suggests that cheek piercings were popular as long ago as 30,000 years, with teenagers and children as young as 10 years old sporting labrets during the Ice Age.

The discovery was made in the town of Scotchtown, about 70 miles from New York City.

The findings suggest vast rivers of glacial meltwater rushed into the sea, pooling over dense salty ocean water.

“We suggest that these extreme conditions led to the depopulation of Europe,” write the authors of the study, “perhaps lasting for several successive glacial-interglacial cycles."

Prior to the study, it was previously thought that much of the ice sheet that covers the country today had persisted for the past 2.5 million years.

Increased ocean temperatures and stronger monsoons created more moisture. This moisture fed growing ice sheets.