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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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.
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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
The extinction of mastodons and mammoths, along with many other large Ice Age animals, was likely caused by a combination of factors, including the changing climate at the end of the Ice Age and hunting from ancient humans.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
But at the end of the Ice Age, mammoth populations had dwindled and fragmented.
—Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
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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
The extinction of mastodons and mammoths, along with many other large Ice Age animals, was likely caused by a combination of factors, including the changing climate at the end of the Ice Age and hunting from ancient humans.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
But at the end of the Ice Age, mammoth populations had dwindled and fragmented.
—Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
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