A volcano erupted in Central America tens of thousands of years ago, creating an explosion so enormous that scientists believed it triggered prolonged enough global cooling to kick off an ice age.

The last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago ... Since the outset of the Quaternary, whales and sharks have ruled the seas, topping a food chain with otters, seals, dugongs, fish, squid ...

A study published in the March 2025 issue of the journal Quaternary Environments and Humans ... suggests that Ice Age humans may have targeted entire herds or scavenged from herd deaths rather ...

We are focusing on extinct species from Europe and northern Asia, along with some from North America, including: We are using large compilations of carefully audited radiocarbon dates for each mammal ...

The study was published in Quaternary Science Advances, a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of past environments and climate change. White Sands National Park is known for containing ...

We are investigating the causes of variation in mammal body size during the Quaternary period by comparing ice-age mammal species from the past 750,000 years in Britain. The Quaternary is the most ...

1993), with precipitation playing a lesser role in governing the growth and decay of ice. The major late Quaternary ice sheets are the Laurentide (LIS), Cordilleran (CIS), Scandinavian (SIS ...