But this new finding "definitively places humans in North America at time when the ice sheet-curtains were very firmly closed," Sally Reynolds, a paleoecologist at Bournemouth University in ...

"We found that most of the rapid sea-level rise was due to ice sheet melt across North America and Scandinavia, with a surprisingly small contribution from Antarctica," said Whitehouse, a ...

North America was created by ice, and its legacy covers the landscape Ice created the landscape of North America that we’re all familiar with — even if we might not know much about how it happened. At ...

The work confirms a 2021 study’s findings ... they arrived from the north about 13,000 years ago, as the ice sheets across North America were retreating. (The Clovis are named after a town ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ...

Following up a on study in 2021 of tracks ... place people deep in the North American continent at the height of the Last Glacial Maximum. During that time, ice sheets up to two miles thick ...