The Quaternary period spans the last 2.58 million years of Earth's history, including the Pleistocene and the on-going Holocene epochs. It is a time of significant climatic fluctuations and ...

The Quaternary Period, spanning the last 2.6 million years, is marked by dramatic climatic oscillations that have repeatedly reshaped Earth’s surface. Episodes of glaciation and interglacial warmth ...

A misleading bar chart comparing modern carbon dioxide (CO2) levels to those millions of years before humans existed ignores a large CO2 increase during the human era that has changed the climate and ...

Scientists have identified fossils of snow leopards. The discovery has allowed them to trace the evolutionary history of the species during the Quaternary period and to propose how it dispersed from ...