Such animal diversity implies that the cave and surrounding coastal areas were mostly thawed 75,000 years ago. While still technically in an ice age at the time, the period was markedly warmer.

They have shown that cold-adapted animals started to evolve 2.6 million years ago when the permanent ice at the poles became more prevalent. There followed a time when the continental ice sheets ...

Now, a major gap in our understanding of one key Ice Age period has been filled thanks to a rare discovery: the remains of 46 animal species from around 75,000 years ago, uncovered in a little ...

Archaeologists from London are visiting Jersey to help catalogue and store hundreds of ice age animal bone from an ancient site. Jersey Heritage said while the items, found before 1960 at La Cotte ...

A recent study in Norway unveils 75,000-year-old animal remains, challenging previous assumptions about Ice Age megafauna survival. Preserved in peat bogs near Oslo, the ancient DNA reveals that ...

Such animal diversity implies that the cave and surrounding coastal areas were mostly thawed 75,000 years ago. While still technically in an ice age at the time, the period was markedly warmer.

An Arctic Oasis in a Changing Climate The animal variety suggests that after glaciers melted, the Norwegian coast became a largely ice-free haven. It supported migratory reindeer, inland lakes and ...