The Inuit arrived in Greenland several hundred years earlier than previously believed, according to a study that mapped the ...

Led by study author Tatiana Feuerborn, the research provides insights into Greenland sled dogs' spread and movement over millennia and the accompanying human history. By analyzing the genomes, the ...

Greenland was discovered by Vikings sailing from Iceland about 1,000 years ago. While it had an ice cap then, the climate was relatively mild and they established colonies in coastal areas.

An ancient geological process could be shaping modern landscapes. New research led by the University of Southampton suggests ...

Chemical signatures of marine organisms reveal that seasonal sea ice, not a massive ice shelf, persisted in the southern ...

A hot blob currently beneath the Appalachians may have peeled off from Greenland around 80 million years ago and moved to ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived long ago. But the oldest DNA obtained so far dates back about two million ...