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Some 13 millennia ago, what is now the territory of North America was occupied by the Clovis culture, the oldest identifiable culture in the region. The civilization lasted between 200 and 800 years, depending on the source providing the information, but consensus places its life span at somewhere around 500 years. A... |
22 October 2009
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Experts at the Durham University, in the United Kingdom, have recently devised a new map of the country's coastal lands, which highlights the areas most threatened by sea-level rises. The map charts the post Ice-Age tilt of the UK and Ireland, as well as current, relative sea-level changes in the region. Details... |
6 October 2009
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According to a new scientific study, published in the latest issue of the Geological Journal, the woolly mammoth persisted in the territory that is now the United Kingdom 6,000 years longer than first estimated. The new research, which analyzed several fossils found in Shropshire in 1986, determined that the large be... |
18 June 2009
04:39 GMT |
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Glu Mobile Inc., the worldwide leading publisher of mobile games, announced on Wednesday that a new title had been launched for mobile phone users around the world, namely Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. The new game is the third that Glu launches based on Fox Mobile Entertainment’s hit Ice Age franchise, and a... |
18 June 2009
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Geologists at the University of Maryland may have just made one of the most important discoveries to explain the ancient history of our planet, namely what it was that triggered one of the earliest Ice Ages in history. A new scientific research seems to point at the fact that the appearance of oxygen, synthesized by... |
7 May 2009
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The last Ice Age, when glaciers advanced through much of Europe, was not very kind to the Irish wildlife, as much of it was completely annihilated and never recovered. However, it seems that a brave little frog species managed to endure, and toughed out the extremely cold weather. At the same time, members of the sam... |
18 March 2009
04:20 GMT |
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Recent digs done in Boulder, Colorado, have revealed a series of stone artifacts dating back almost 13,000 years ago, which were apparently used to butcher camels and horses, two of the several hundred species of mammals that went extinct in the Americas until the end of the Pleistocene period, some 10,000 years ago.... |
26 February 2009
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The La Brea Tar Pits, one of the most famous places in the world for archaeological digs, is, these days, again home to one of the most important discoveries of the year – an important cache of Ice Age fossils, which will undoubtedly keep scientists occupied for a long period of time. The site is located in Los... |
18 February 2009
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New research, published recently in the journal Science, seems to point at the fact that saber tooths, mammoths, giant sloths and camels, as well as the Clovis culture, were driven into extinction by a 1,300 year-long cold spell, triggered by numerous comet impacts in 6 states across the northern US and several in so... |
5 January 2009
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While most climatologists argue that the onset of the human influence on our planet's atmosphere began with the Industrial Revolution, some 200 years ago, there are those who say that we began influencing our climate far earlier than that, when industrial-sized rice crops filled the plains of Asia and massive nu... |
18 December 2008
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Contrary to what most of us may believe, scientific studies indicate that Ice Ages are not a rare phenomenon occurring every now and then for more or less long periods of time. Instead, the interglacial periods, the short spells between long, freezing epochs, are the real intruders. In other words, the tiny geologica... |
13 November 2008
04:47 GMT |
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The recent digs performed this summer at the World Trade Center in New York in order to lay the foundations for another skyscraper revealed some remains sculpted into the rocks in the area by ancient glaciers some twenty millennia ago, among which there was a 40 ft-deep (12 m) pothole. The uncovering of the soli... |
24 September 2008
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A team of geologists conducting research in Russia uncovered even more parts of an ancient Ice Age lake. Over 10.000 years ago, enormous glacial lakes covered portions of North America and Russia. One of them, called Lake Agassiz, existed over present Minnesota and Canada. Greater than California, back then it ... |
11 September 2008
06:16 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard is announcing the future of the Vivendi Games properties that it has acquired as part of the merger process. The new company is expected to keep some of the most successful franchises and to spin off or terminate other intellectual properties.The most interesting assets for Activision Blizzard are... |
29 July 2008
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There is little doubt now about what causes climate change, but whether or not carbon dioxide is the sole factor responsible for global warming is another subject of debate, says Manuel Vazquez of the Canary Islands' Astrophysics Institute. Statistics indicate that the Sun could account for as much as 20 percent... |
21 July 2008
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The change in the circulation patterns of oceanic currents is likely to have been the key mechanism for the abrupt climate change that took place during the last glacial period of Earth more than 21,000 years ago. If this is indeed true, then air temperature and wind speed could have also had a significant contributi... |
21 July 2008
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A new study shows that the massive explosion of a comet into Earth's atmosphere during the last Ice Age might have rained diamonds and precious metals over the North American continent, leading to the mass killing of both animals and humans alike. In fact, most of the diamonds and precious metal deposits in seve... |
8 July 2008
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It is most certain that Earth's clime took a severe turn towards global warming ever since the Industrial Revolution began. Greenhouse gas concentrations have been rising steadily since, but one cannot stop wondering what the Sun's part is in all this. How does the Sun itself affect the clime of our planet?... |
9 May 2008
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Mars is often viewed as a planet that has been climatically active in a distant past, having flowing water on its surface as early as 3.5 billion years ago. At some point in time around this date, Mars' clime took a turning point rendering it much as the way we see it today. New discoveries made with the Mars Re... |
24 April 2008
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It's no secret now. Planets, stars may vary their magnetic fields so severely that could eventually reverse poles. Magnetic north becomes south and vice versa. Geologic evidences strongly suggest that even our planet could have reversed its poles a number of times in the past. The Sun's magnetic field orien... |
27 February 2008
03:34 GMT |
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Glu Mobile just announced that it has signed a multi-year agreement with Fox Mobile Entertainment to develop and publish mobile games and content based on the ICE AGE brand. Glu will begin by developing and publishing the mobile-exclusive game ICE AGE: Mammoth Mayhem, scheduled for launch in the summer of 2008."Our i... |
20 February 2008
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We have taught ourselves to believe that all the planets have roughly circular orbits around stars and have changed much over the years, but the truth is far from this presumption. Planets, like all bodies in the universe have highly elliptical orbits, where the 'central' orbited body is situated in one of ... |
11 February 2008
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20th Century Fox will step into the MMO games big time with Ice Age Online, based on the movie series and a sure blockbuster if done right. And there is no reason for it to be done wrong, since the development work will be handled by Ragnarok Online and Rose Online Creators, Gravity.The only certain thing until now ... |
16 January 2008
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According to experts, the longest and deepest ice age known in history, in which the Earth's clime cooled considerably for a few hundred million years, causing the planet to completely freeze over, has been misinterpreted. Actually, the event, which took place in the Neoproterozoic era, from about 850 to 542 mil... |
6 December 2007
06:32 GMT |
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Manny, Sid and Diego return with another incredible adventure. The Ice Age is coming to an end, and the animals are delighted in their new world: a melting paradise of water parks, geysers and tar pits. But when Manny, Sid and Diego discover that the miles of melted ice will flood their valley, they must warn everyon... |
7 March 2007
05:53 GMT |
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