the Ice Age
noun
: the most recent time in the past when a large part of the world was covered with ice
a valley formed during the Ice Age
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Romano voiced Manny in the Ice Age film series and appeared in The Big Sick and Martin Scorsese's The Irishman.
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Kate Hogan, People.com, 16 May 2025
There are also indications that both populations have been in a steady decline since the Ice Age, with the total saola population on Earth never growing beyond 5,000 individuals over the last 10,000 years.
—Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2025
Colossal plans to use similar techniques to bring back the Ice Age woolly mammoth in 2028, editing living cell nuclei from Asian elephants—the mammoth’s closest living kin—to express mammoth traits preserved in nearly 60 sets of Ice Age remains.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
These hearths date back to the coldest period of the Ice Age, between 26,500 and 19,000 years ago.
—Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2025
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Kate Hogan, People.com, 16 May 2025
There are also indications that both populations have been in a steady decline since the Ice Age, with the total saola population on Earth never growing beyond 5,000 individuals over the last 10,000 years.
—Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2025
Colossal plans to use similar techniques to bring back the Ice Age woolly mammoth in 2028, editing living cell nuclei from Asian elephants—the mammoth’s closest living kin—to express mammoth traits preserved in nearly 60 sets of Ice Age remains.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
These hearths date back to the coldest period of the Ice Age, between 26,500 and 19,000 years ago.
—Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2025
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