“Slushball” Earth: New Evidence Rewrites Ice Age History
Geologists have uncovered evidence suggesting that the planet did not experience complete glaciation during the ice age that occurred 635 million years ago. Earth has…
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Cosmic Clockwork: The Outer Space Origin of Ice Age Cycles
A team of researchers, including climatologists and an astronomer, has utilized an enhanced computer model to recreate the ice age cycles that occurred between 1.6…
Genetic Evolution and the Ice Age: What Crocodile DNA Reveals
Environmental drivers such as sea level affect genetic evolution and point to where conservation efforts may be focused. What drives crocodile evolution? Is climate a…
Princeton Scientists Shocked To Discover Bering Land Bridge Formed Far Later During Last Ice Age Than Thought
Princeton scientists found that the Bering Land Bridge was flooded until 35,700 years ago, with its full emergence occurring only shortly before the migration of…
New Research Flips Our Understanding of Ice Age Frequency
An unexpected discovery of a previously unstudied sediment core from Antarctica by researchers from the University of Otago has flipped our understanding of how often…
Scientists Discover How the Tilting and Wobbling of the Earth Influenced the Fate of Ancient Ice Sheets
Researchers have finally answered a long-standing question over the role of Earth’s orbit in driving global ice age cycles. Scientists have been able to decipher…
Dansgaard-Oeschger Events: Abrupt Ice Age Climate Changes Behaved Like Cascading Dominoes
Throughout the last ice age, the climate changed repeatedly and rapidly during so-called Dansgaard-Oeschger events, where Greenland temperatures rose between 5 and 16 degrees Celsius…
Gray Wolves Survived Ice-Age Extinction by Adapting Their Diet
Gray wolves are among the largest predators to have survived the extinction at the end of the last ice age around 11,700 years ago. Today,…
Zealandia Switch: The Missing Link in Understanding Ice Age Climates
The origins of ice age climate changes may lie in the Southern Hemisphere, where interactions among the westerly wind system, the Southern Ocean, and the…
Genetic Analysis Shows Crocodile Evolution Was Rebooted by Ice Age Glaciations
Researchers discover impacts of Ice Age sea level changes in the genomes of Caribbean and Pacific crocodiles in Panama. Crocodiles are resilient animals from a…
Incredible 635 Million-Year-Old Fungi-Like Microfossil That Bailed Our Planet Out of an Ice Age
When you think of fungi, what comes to mind may be a crucial ingredient in a recipe or their amazing ability to break down dead…
Manatees Lived in Texas During the Last Ice Age
Manatees don’t live year-round in Texas, but these gentle, slow-moving sea cows are known to occasionally visit, swimming in for a “summer vacation” from Florida…
Snowball Earth: Global Ice Age Changed the Face of the Planet
Curtin University researchers have discovered that a global ice age more than 600 million years ago dramatically altered the face of the planet, leaving a…
Demise of Laurentide Ice Sheet Due to Sudden Shift in “Radiative Forcing”
Researchers at Oregon State University studied the cause of the demise of the massive Laurentide Ice Sheet during the last ice age, looking for clues…
Research Suggests First Plants Triggered Ice Ages
By studying modern moss, researchers from the Universities of Exeter and Oxford reveal how the arrival of the first plants 470 million years ago triggered…
Little Ice Age Sparked by Volcanoes, Sustained by Sea-Ice Feedback
The Little Ice Age (LIA), a mysterious period of cooling that occurred after the Medieval Warm Period and extended from the 16th into the 19th…
