Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...