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Over the past few million years, Asia and North America have been intermittently linked via a land strip from time to time. Researchers were recently able to demonstrate that the presence of this strip is what caused the massive climate swings that characterized the last ice age.
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10 April 2012
09:42 GMT |
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A new study reveals some of the most important missing details about how the Ordovician–Silurian extinction event (known simply as the Ordovician extinction) occurred, about 450 million years ago.
One of the most interesting aspects of this event was that it occurred in two stages. This is partially why it was... |
10 April 2012
04:32 GMT |
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Researchers in the United States have recently determined that gray wolves and coyotes took the last Ice Age pretty rough, but managed to survive. The study indicates that the two were once similar in appearance, and suggests that each of the species may have taken a different evolutionary path.
The next question th... |
28 February 2012
03:35 GMT |
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A team of experts at the Arizona State University (ASU) and the University of Colorado in Denver (UCD) say that ancient hominins who lived during the last Ice Age were biologically and mentally capable of adapting to the new conditions brought forward by climate change. Investigators conducted the new research by cre... |
17 November 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Copenhagen Center of GeoGenetics say that a new analysis of six large herbivore species revealed an interesting aspect of Earth's environment at the end of the last Ice Age – nature and man conspired to cause the demise of large herbivore animals.
This was established aft... |
3 November 2011
04:46 GMT |
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About 18,000 years ago, the world was at the peak of the last glaciation, or Ice Age. Over the next thousands of years, massive amounts of carbon dioxide appeared in Earth's atmosphere, and researchers have been arguing that the deep ocean was the source. However, a new study shows this to be false.
The issue... |
4 October 2011
15:01 GMT |
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For the past century, there is a general belief that Neanderthals' facial features were an adaptation to extreme temperatures, but a new research focusing on Neanderthal skulls concluded that this theory is very unlikely.Neanderthals had large cheekbones and wide noses, and it was believed that this development ... |
17 January 2011
10:00 GMT |
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The reptile extinction waves in the Greek islands over the past 15,000 years, give a very accurate response of the way that plants and animals will react to the fast global warming, due to human-caused climate change, concluded a University of Michigan ecologist.Johannes Foufopoulos and his colleagues, wanted to bett... |
10 December 2010
06:16 GMT |
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A new photograph of Pyramid Lake, taken from space, brings it back into the focus as the remnant of a larger, ancient body of water that existed in Western Nevada millennia ago, called Lake Lahontan. Located some 40 miles (64 kilometers) away from Reno, the lake developed from the larger body of water after Lake Laho... |
20 October 2010
04:56 GMT |
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The Earth's greenhouse effect is mainly caused by water vapors and clouds, but a new atmosphere-ocean climate modeling research shows that it is ultimately the carbon dioxide who is in control of the planet's temperature.A study led by Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) co-author Gavin Schmidt, acce... |
15 October 2010
05:35 GMT |
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Along the South American Pacific coast biodiversity does not decrease towards the poles, say Steffen Kiel and Sven Nielsen from the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU).Normally, biodiversity decreases towards the poles, but fossil clams and snails found in chile, suggest that this does not happen along... |
5 October 2010
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The Scottish pine tree is carrying the traces of its continental ancestors, from the last Ice Age period, found out an international team of scientists from the Center for Ecology & Hydrology, the Polish Academy of Sciences, the University of Edinburgh and the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute.They studied the gen... |
9 September 2010
10:04 GMT |
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A team of investigators may have just found an explanation for why Antarctica was warming up while the rest of the world was locked in the final pulsations of the last Ice Age. The period, known as the Younger Dryas, was a period of abrupt cooling, that took place as the last glacial period was coming at an end. Temp... |
9 September 2010
04:45 GMT |
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By harvesting coral fossils that are more than 20,000 years old, experts hope to be able to paint a clearer picture of how global sea levels may have changed over time, and especially since the last glacial period. A team of researchers recently conducted an expedition at the outer fringes of the Great Barrier Reef, ... |
7 September 2010
01:57 GMT |
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A new study carried out by Tom Guilderson, a scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry and colleagues, suggests that CO2 release may speed up the melting following an ice age.Guilderson used radiocarbon dating to trace the pathway of carbon dioxide released fr... |
27 August 2010
08:46 GMT |
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The geological record shows that our planet experienced a period of low temperatures some 12,900 years ago. This time frame has been dubbed the Ice Age, and experts have believed for a long time that it was caused by a meteorite, or other space rock, slamming into Earth. However, new evidence appear to indicate that ... |
26 July 2010
16:01 GMT |
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Marine researchers are perfectly aware of the fact that the world's oceans have only revealed a minute part of their secrets thus far. Immense swaths of ocean floor are still not mapped, and only superficially studied, as the sheer size of the water-covered areas makes thorough surveys difficult. Still, from tim... |
26 April 2010
02:34 GMT |
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For many years, experts looking at the possible effects that the last Ice Age may have had on indigenous populations in North America said that the events triggered major repercussions. The experts believed that the Younger Dryas period specifically was the most harmful. In geological terms, this is a period of a few... |
12 April 2010
11:07 GMT |
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Eskers and drumlins are two types of little-known landscape features that have been posing a number of questions geologists can't really answer. These structures, which are at times arranged in parallel rows, have for a long time made experts assume that they were created through the action of glaciers, over mil... |
7 April 2010
10:10 GMT |
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For many years, a part of the international scientific community has been arguing that, at one point in time, the extent of sea-based ice caps must have reached all the way to the Equator. As more studies on this were conducted, they even managed to establish a time line of sorts, but failed to pinpoint the exact dat... |
5 March 2010
02:47 GMT |
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In a finding that may force experts to reconsider how ice sheets are influenced by climate change, a group of scientists has determined that the global sea levels were higher than today more than 80,000 years ago. The measurements that led to the new conclusions were collected from Mediterranean caves that were flood... |
12 February 2010
03:47 GMT |
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According to a growing body of scientific pieces of evidence, it would appear that human activity was the main factor that led to the extinction of some of Australia's greatest animals. Previous investigations into the matter had concluded that climate change and variations in the hydrology and vegetation of the... |
25 January 2010
02:36 GMT |
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Climatologists concluded in a new scientific study that climate variations recorded in Greenland over the course of the last Ice Age also had repercussions for the area that was known as the American Southwest at that point. The data that led to this conclusion were collected from a limestone cave in Arizona, which f... |
21 January 2010
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Scientists at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, led by William Patterson, have demonstrated that the script behind the movie “The Day after Tomorrow” may have not been so far-fetched when showing a deep freeze taking over the world in just a few weeks. They argue that the latest Ice Age to have sw... |
30 November 2009
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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
20:11 GMT |
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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
04:26 GMT |
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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
10:24 GMT |
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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
09:44 GMT |
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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
05:08 GMT |
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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
06:50 GMT |
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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
08:04 GMT |
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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
11:22 GMT |
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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
05:53 GMT |
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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
03:14 GMT |
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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
06:46 GMT |
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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
05:40 GMT |
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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
04:19 GMT |
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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
06:35 GMT |
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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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