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changes that occurred during the last ice age
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The Pleistocene was characterized by dramatic changes in climate, including a series of ice ages.
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Andre A. Naranjo, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2025
Like mammoths, mastodons disappeared toward the end of the last ice age, when a series of factors, including climate change and human hunting, drove many large animals to extinction, as Jess Thomson reports for Newsweek.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
Between 720 million and 635 million years ago, Earth plunged into a series of super ice ages.
—David Bressan, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
Making clothes fit for the ice age In November, a team in Wyoming proposed the idea that Paleolithic North Americans likely made needles using the bones of foxes, hares, rabbits, bobcats, mountain lions, lynx, and even the now-extinct American cheetah.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
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Andre A. Naranjo, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2025
Like mammoths, mastodons disappeared toward the end of the last ice age, when a series of factors, including climate change and human hunting, drove many large animals to extinction, as Jess Thomson reports for Newsweek.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
Between 720 million and 635 million years ago, Earth plunged into a series of super ice ages.
—David Bressan, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
Making clothes fit for the ice age In November, a team in Wyoming proposed the idea that Paleolithic North Americans likely made needles using the bones of foxes, hares, rabbits, bobcats, mountain lions, lynx, and even the now-extinct American cheetah.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
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“Ice age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20age. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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