WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When the first prehistoric people trekked into South America toward the end of the Ice Age, they found a wondrous, lush continent inhabited by all manner of …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
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Ancient armored mammal from Argentina was a huge armadillo
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – DNA coaxed out of a 12,000-year-old fossil from Argentina is providing unique insight into one of the strangest Ice Age giants: a tank-like mammal the size of …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Melting Scandinavian ice provides missing link in Europe’s final Ice Age story
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•Molecular-based moisture indicators, remains of midges and climate simulations have provided climate scientists with the final piece to one of the most enduring puzzles of the last Ice Age. …read more Source:: Science
Mammoth remains, as far as the eye can see: Widest distribution of mammoths during the last Ice Age
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•Ice Age paleontologist recorded the maximum geographic distribution of the woolly mammoth during the last Ice Age and published the most accurate global map in this regard. The ice-age pachyderms …read more Source:: Science
Greenhouse gases caused glacial retreat during last Ice Age
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•A recalculation of the dates at which boulders were uncovered by melting glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age has conclusively shown that the glacial retreat was due …read more Source:: Science