the Ice Age
noun
: the most recent time in the past when a large part of the world was covered with ice
a valley formed during the Ice Age
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And that was just during the Ice Age from about 11,700 to 2 million years ago, when mammoths, mastodons and several other forms of elephant were common parts of ecosystems all across the planet.
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Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
Together, these discoveries painted a picture of a species that had once thrived in Australia’s alpine regions during the Pleistocene epoch, better known as the Ice Age.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
An April 2014 study on dire wolf fossils from La Brea published in Palaeontologica Electronica found that dire wolves shrunk in size as the Ice Age ended, possibly adapting to hunt smaller prey in a warming world.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Now, scientists say most of the mammoths used to build the site were female, which suggests the Ice Age hunter-gatherers were hunting or scavenging from herds, rather than trapping lone males.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Feb. 2025
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Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
Together, these discoveries painted a picture of a species that had once thrived in Australia’s alpine regions during the Pleistocene epoch, better known as the Ice Age.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
An April 2014 study on dire wolf fossils from La Brea published in Palaeontologica Electronica found that dire wolves shrunk in size as the Ice Age ended, possibly adapting to hunt smaller prey in a warming world.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Now, scientists say most of the mammoths used to build the site were female, which suggests the Ice Age hunter-gatherers were hunting or scavenging from herds, rather than trapping lone males.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Feb. 2025
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