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A Texas road project unearthed remains of Ice Age era animals. Here's what they found, and what will happen to the remains.
The remains of an Ice Age era animal have been unearthed in Lubbock during a road construction project. Here's what it was ...
Ancient migration between wild horse populations in America and Asia show how ecosystems adapt to survive cataclysmic change ...
But how did our Ice Age ancestors do it? There actually isn't much in the archaeological record to help answer that question. "We know that fire was widespread before and after this period ...
Particles of both minerals and organic matter track the retreat of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, which melted about 20,000 years ...
A solar radiation storm struck Earth 14,300 years ago, showering the planet with high-energy particles and leaving a spike in ...
Yet a lack of evidence from the coldest part of the ice age has prevented scientists from saying how. “We know that fire was widespread before and after this period, but there is little evidence ...
"We know that fire was widespread before and after this period, but there is little evidence from the height of the Ice Age," explained William Murphree, a geoarchaeologist at the University of ...
As the last Ice Age came to an end nearly 10,000 years ago ... the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet may have played a role in this fiery period. As the glaciers shrank, they relieved pressure ...
Geological evidence, for example, suggests that the island underwent a period of intense volcanic activity at the end of the last Ice Age, which has since quieted down. Enhanced spreading at the ...
Testifying to the intensity of the era’s climate change, the rocks’ arrival in Iceland stresses that the Late Antique Little Ice Age was severe, with a wide variety of consequences around the time of ...
The remains of an Ice Age era animal have been unearthed in Lubbock during the ongoing road construction project for Loop 88. Due to Texas having locations where ancient human activity connected ...