ice age
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Scientists Discover Ice Age Structure Made From Bones Of 60 Mammoths
An unusually large structure from the last ice age built from the bones of dozens of woolly mammoths has been uncovered in Russia. Dating back some 25,000 years, it’s the oldest known structure of its kind—but its purpose isn’t entirely clear.
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These Crows Evolved Into A New Species, Boned The Old Species Too Much, Now Back Where They Started
Hundreds of thousands of years ago, a glacier advanced upon the Pacific Northwest, its ice forming a natural barrier that fractured crows into two populations. These populations began to diverge into two separate species, which ornithologists decided were distinguishable by small differences in body measurements and the sounds they made. At least, that’s what they…
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Extinct ‘Siberian Unicorns’ Walked The Earth Alongside Modern Humans
Weighing up to 3,500kg, Elasmotherium sibiricum—an extinct hairy rhino popularly known as the “Siberian unicorn”—was thought to have disappeared as long as 200,000 years ago. An updated fossil analysis suggests this formidable species was still around some 39,000 years ago, and that Ice Age conditions, not human hunters, contributed to its demise.
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Scientists Just Figured Out How To Predict Melting Ice Ages
Two UK scientists have developed a simple rule that can predict the end of ice ages and the beginning of the warmer interglacial periods over the past million years.