Considering such a scale, for about 2.5 million years we have been living in the Quaternary Ice Age, to be precise in its declining phase. However, something so unusual is happening in the Earth's ...
The last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago ... Since the outset of the Quaternary, whales and sharks have ruled the seas, topping a food chain with otters, seals, dugongs, fish, squid ...
Focus: Tracing the transformation of tropically-adapted mammoths into highly specialised woolly mammoths of the late ice age Museum researchers are using fossil mammoth molars to study how animals ...
We are focusing on extinct species from Europe and northern Asia, along with some from North America, including: We are using large compilations of carefully audited radiocarbon dates for each mammal ...
Large and rapid climatic changes have taken place during the Quaternary associated with glacial and interglacial cycles. The extent and thickness of the major high latitude ice sheets acts as a ...