It was so shockingly cold that there were short-lived fears of a new ice age. Scientists think human activity contributed to the historic weather.

Earth’s path around the Sun is not a fixed racetrack but a slowly shifting orbit, and those subtle changes have a long history of reshaping the planet’s climate. As astronomers refine how these orbital cycles work and geologists match them to ancient ice sheets,

Apple TV is taking viewers back in time. The streaming service announced its latest series, Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, and shared a new trailer for the natural history series with PEOPLE. "For two and a half million years, ice grips the planet and life ...

Tom Hiddleston narrates the third season of the Prehistoric Planet franchise.

From woolly mammoths to diprotodons - rhino-sized relatives of wombats - "Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age" follows creatures roaming Earth millions of years after the extinction of the dinosaurs, the focus of the Apple TV+ series' first two seasons.

When Prehistoric Planet returned with Ice Age, audiences anticipated bigger creatures, harsher environments, and even more seamless natural-history

A hyper-realistic picture of life during that Pleistocene era emerges with Apple TV’s five-part, computer-driven “Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age,” which takes place millions of years after the dinosaurs’ extinction.

2008 and 2009: In 2008, London experiences its first flurry of October snow since 1934. In 2009, things get serious; the heaviest snowfall in 18 years paralyses bus, Tube and train routes. The freezing temperatures even cause Eurostar trains loaded with passengers to get stuck in the Channel Tunnel overnight.