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changes that occurred during the last ice age
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Radiocarbon dating indicated that the canine lived about 12,000 years ago, near the end of the ice age.
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2024
This vertical land movement occurs as land masses slowly rebound from the weight of past ice age glaciers.
—Kate S. Petersen, Austin American-Statesman, 30 Nov. 2024
Most scientists believe that ice ages—there have been at least ten of them over the past two and half million years—are initiated and terminated by periodic shifts in the Earth’s orbit, caused by, among other factors, the tug of Jupiter and Saturn.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 9 Oct. 2024
In the past, researchers have pinned culpability on the rapidly warming climate, arguing that Pleistocene beasts were unable to adapt as the world climbed out of an ice age.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2024
This vertical land movement occurs as land masses slowly rebound from the weight of past ice age glaciers.
—Kate S. Petersen, Austin American-Statesman, 30 Nov. 2024
Most scientists believe that ice ages—there have been at least ten of them over the past two and half million years—are initiated and terminated by periodic shifts in the Earth’s orbit, caused by, among other factors, the tug of Jupiter and Saturn.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 9 Oct. 2024
In the past, researchers have pinned culpability on the rapidly warming climate, arguing that Pleistocene beasts were unable to adapt as the world climbed out of an ice age.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Ice age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20age. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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