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11 Sep 2020

Mexican airport site emerges as major graveyard of Ice Age mammoths

Amid busy construction crews racing to build an airport in Mexico, scientists are unearthing more and more mammoth skeletons, It has quickly become one of the world`s biggest concentrations of the now-extinct relative of modern elephants. More than 100 mammoth skeletons have been identified spread across nearly 200 excavation sites, along with a mix of other Ice Age mammals.

Ghost footprints

13 Nov 2019

'Ghost' footprints hiding since end of Ice Age found

The fossilised footprints reveal a wealth of information about how humans and animals moved and interacted with each other 12,000 years ago.

20 Feb 2018

Ancient human remains, ice age animal bones found in giant Mexican cave

A group of divers recently connected two underwater caverns in eastern Mexico to reveal what is believed to be the biggest flooded cave on the planet, a discovery that could help shed new light on the ancient Maya civilization.

04 Jul 2017

Gene causing arthritis may have helped humans survive Ice Age: Study

The study showed that mutations in the gene called GDF5 resulted in shorter bones that led to a compact body structure while reducing the risk of bone fracture from falling.

Mass extinction

07 Mar 2017

One of Earth's biggest mass extinctions the result of ice age, not global warming!

It is the first time that the various stages of a mass extinction have been accurately understood and that scientists have been able to assess the major role played by volcanic explosions in these climate processes.

30 Oct 2016

CO2 in oceans sets off an ice age every 100,000 years

According to the study published in the journal Geology, oceans sucking carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere may have triggered this phenomena.

01 Jun 2016

Bee population escalated post last ice age, reveals study!

According to the study conducted by experts from Flinders University of South Australia, the Australian small carpenter bee -- found in sub-tropical, coastal and desert areas in Australia --has flourished in the period of global warming following the last Ice Age some 18,000 years ago.

27 May 2016

Ice age on Mars took place 400,000 years ago, claim scientists

Making use of radar data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), the study indicates that glacial period came to an end about 400,000 years ago.

09 Feb 2016

Global warming likely to extend for thousands of years

The international team of scientists generated new scenarios for temperature rise, glacial melting, sea-level rise and coastal flooding based on state-of-the-art climate and ice sheet models.

05 Feb 2016

DNA data uncovers unknown chapter of human history

This is remarkable because the M haplogroup is effectively absent in modern Europeans but is extremely common in modern Asian, Australasian, and Native American populations.

15 Jan 2016

Global warming: Next ice age delayed for 100,000 years

Global warming could delay next ice age, says a new study.

22 Dec 2015

Agriculture didn't spur growth of human population

For their research, the scientists analysed radiocarbon dates from Wyoming and Colorado that were recovered predominantly from charcoal hearths, which provide a direct record of prehistoric human activity.

05 Nov 2015

Earth heading for decade-long 'mini ice age' in 15 years?

Researchers in the UK claimed to have created a new model that predicts the solar cycles more accurately than ever before.

24 Sep 2015

Early Australians fought giant killer lizards

During the last Ice Age, Australia's first human inhabitants had to contend with giant killer lizards, reveals new research that unearthed fossils of giant killer lizards.

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