Dr Hana Jurikova, the lead researcher from St Andrews, said: “The end of the Late Palaeozoic Ice Age was a turning point in ...

3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era) was a desolate time in Earth's history. Something—a bout of violent volcanic eruptions, climate change, or perhaps a fatal run ...

Around 370 million years ago, Earth gradually descended into the longest lived and probably the most intense ice age ...

The ring might have acted like a giant sunshade, causing a cooling effect that might have unleashed an ice age.

Learn about the time period that took place 65 to 23 million ... and giant marine reptiles were conspicuously absent from the face of the Earth. Rodent-size (and perhaps larger) mammals emerged ...

The cold periods - or ice ages - are ... Between 36 and 20 million years ago the earth experienced the first of three major cooling steps. At this time a continental-scale temperate ice sheet ...

New understanding sheds light on the central role CO2 has played in Earth's geological cooling and warming across time ...