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The chilling cause of Earth's extreme ice-age 700 million years ago
Post-Ice Age Evolution Boom: After the Sturtian Ice Age ended, Earth experienced a warming phase that allowed multicellular ...
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'We are creating the fire equivalent of an ice age': Humans have plunged Earth into the 'Pyrocene'
Humans have become a geologic force by cooking the planet — using fire on a scale that is altering land, water, air and ...
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What children's cave art tells us about life 14,000 years ago
Ice-age children are behind some unusual drawings in the Las Monedas Cave in Spain, a new study claims. Here & Now 's Peter O'Dowd talks with Isobel Wisher, a postdoctoral researcher in the Evolution ...
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Last ice age quiz: How much do you know about Earth's frosty past?
How did woolly mammoths survive the last ice age? And how thick was the ice over New York City? Test your knowledge by taking our quiz.
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Evolution and taxonomy of Ice Age deer
Due to their dynamic evolution and abundance as fossils ... as well as its distributional and genetic changes through the last ice age up to the present. The red deer, Cervus elaphus, is one of the ...
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Giant ice age landforms discovered deep beneath North Sea revealed in amazing detail
New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million ...
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5 ice age animals you won’t believe existed
The Ice Age wasn't just about cold weather; it profoundly influenced ecosystems, animal evolution, and even human migration. Many iconic animals, such as mammoths, saber-toothed cats, and giant ...
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Carbon dioxide has been regulating Earth's climate for hundreds of millions of years—new study
The transition in and out of the Late Paleozoic ice age was one of the biggest climate transitions in Earth's history, a turning point in the evolution of life and the environment. It ...
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Increased wildfire activity may be a feature of past periods of abrupt climate change
Previous research has shown that levels of atmospheric methane, a greenhouse gas, spiked during abrupt climate change periods during the last Ice Age, which ended about 11,000 years ago.
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Cave Art:
Not until the late 19th century did humans learn of the extraordinary art produced by their Ice Age ancestors ... an important turning point in hominid evolution that has sometimes been dubbed ...
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Ice core drilling in Antarctica to discover environment evolution over the last 1,5 million years
By analyzing a deep ice core extracted from the Antarctic ice sheet, scientists aim to find out information on the evolution of the temperatures, the composition of the atmosphere, and on the ...
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Susan Blackmore: Memetic Evolution:
Think of the differences between Ice Age cave art and modern painting ... remains one of the leading ways of thinking about cultural evolution. And, of course, the theory is a meme itself.