During the ice age, much of the planet's water was frozen in ice sheets, which meant that sea levels were significantly lower, Dávalos explained. The Caribbean islands, while not ice-covered like ...

Cold-adapted animals started to evolve 2.6 million years ago when the permanent ice at the poles became more prevalent. There followed a time when the continental ice sheets expanded and contracted ...

A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to ...

It’s nice and neat, falling just after the close of the last Ice Age and during a time when humans ... and North America, as well as Caribbean islands at the end of the Pleistocene – but ...

During the last ice age, the cave’s roof collapsed ... into climate fluctuations and hurricane cycles in the southwestern Caribbean. Instrumental data and human records available to date ...

Scientists call this period, the point during the Ice Age at which the glaciers covered their largest extent, the Last Glacial Maximum. “We have a lot of data about this time period because it ...

During the last ice age, massive continental ice sheets up to five km high covered much of North America and northern Europe (the Laurentide and Fennoscandian ice sheets, respectively).

This research came about because as paleoceanographers (scientists who study oceans in the past), we wanted to understand how the oceans behaved during the last ice age to provide insights into ...

In the Caribbean, an international research ... of years ago from a karst cave located on a limestone island. During the last ice age, the cave's roof collapsed. As ice sheets melted and global ...