Ice Age
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57,000-year-old wolf puppy found frozen in Canada’s permafrostGold miners found the wolf in permafrost, where it was held '100 per cent intact' for millennia.TrendingDec 22, 2020
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Missing link? Puppy frozen for 18,000 years could be dog, wolf or bothThe remarkably well-preserved canine was found in the Siberian permafrost in 2018. It was about two months old when it died.TrendingNov 28, 2019
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Human-made ‘mammoth traps’ found at 15,000-year-old site in MexicoThe discovery suggests that humans hunted mammoths more actively than was previously thought.TrendingNov 7, 2019
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You’ve heard of the Ice Age. A fire historian says we’re in the age of fire"We're creating, in effect, something on the scale that might be comparable to the ice ages, the Pleistocene," said Prof. Stephen J. Pyne.CanadaNov 2, 2019
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Scientist finds fossil evidence of sabre-toothed cat in southern AlbertaRoyal Ontario Museum scientists have found fossil evidence from the last ice age of a sabre-toothed cat in southern Alberta — the northern-most record of the predator.ScienceOct 4, 2019
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Head of Ice Age wolf found perfectly preserved in ice in SiberiaAbout 40,000 years ago, a wolf died in what we know as Siberia. Now its severed head has been found, and because of the freezing conditions, it is so well preserved that its fur, teeth, brain and facial tissue are largely intact.WorldJun 15, 2019
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Resilient species newly discovered in B.C. cave may be survivor from Ice AgeHaplocampa wagnelli, the arthropod found in a cave on Vancouver Island, is about three to four millimetres long, with six legs, no eyes, and a whitish, almost transparent colour.ScienceFeb 9, 2019
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‘Little Ice Age’ caused by death of 55-million Indigenous people after colonization: studyColonization of the Americas at the end of the 15th century killed so many people, it disturbed Earth's climate, according to a new study.CanadaFeb 6, 2019
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Ancient polar bears survived low ice periods on dead whales: studyNew research suggests washed-up whale carcasses could have been a major source of food for polar bears during eras of low sea ice and poor seal hunting conditions.ScienceOct 9, 2018
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Remains of Ice Age infants found in AlaskaResearchers have uncovered the remains of two Ice Age infants in Alaska's interior, a discovery archaeologists call the youngest human remains of that era found in northern North America.ScienceNov 11, 2014
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