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 ...

Fossils from the Quaternary ice ages provide excellent opportunities for ... of transformation leading to the highly-specialised woolly mammoth of the late ice age, adapted to cold, treeless ...

During the last ice age, massive continental ice sheets up ... GISP2 oxygen isotope ratios. Quaternary Research 53, 277-283 (2000). Vellinga, M. & Wood, R. A. Global climatic impacts of a collapse ...

A study published in the March 2025 issue of the journal Quaternary Environments and Humans ... suggests that Ice Age humans may have targeted entire herds or scavenged from herd deaths rather ...

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 ...

1993), with precipitation playing a lesser role in governing the growth and decay of ice. The major late Quaternary ice sheets are the Laurentide (LIS), Cordilleran (CIS), Scandinavian (SIS ...

The Quaternary ice ages are thought to be driven by variations in Earth’s orbital configuration. However, due to imprecise age constraints concerning the timing of glacial cycles, researchers ...