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At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was like during the Pleistocene A shaft of golden light from the cave’s mouth ...

The Earth’s climate is a dynamic entity, continuously evolving over billions of years with alternating periods of extreme heat and cold. Recent scientific studies indicate that the Earth is subtly ...

Tom Hiddleston returns as narrator for a bigger, wilder chapter set deep in the Pleistocene. One of Apple’s most ambitious natural-history projects is finally returning. “Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age” ...

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; ...