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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Paleontologists have identified more than 50 different species of horses that roamed across North America, Europe and Eurasia during the Ice Age.
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Lauren Liebhaber
july 18, Miami Herald, 18 July 2025
Nevertheless, Earth’s ecosystems are still in a megafaunal lull that began at the close of the Ice Age.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2025
The dire wolf disappeared during the Quaternary megafauna extinction, a period when over 178 species of large mammals — known as megafauna — went extinct between 52,000 and 9,000 BCE, long after the Ice Age but before the rise of human civilization.
—Brandi D. Addison, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Dire wolves did overlap with early humans at the end of the Ice Age, around 11,500 years ago, but humans had barely invented agriculture at that point, let alone begun building the cities and interstate highways that would encroach upon the natural world.
—Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2025
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Lauren Liebhaber
july 18, Miami Herald, 18 July 2025
Nevertheless, Earth’s ecosystems are still in a megafaunal lull that began at the close of the Ice Age.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2025
The dire wolf disappeared during the Quaternary megafauna extinction, a period when over 178 species of large mammals — known as megafauna — went extinct between 52,000 and 9,000 BCE, long after the Ice Age but before the rise of human civilization.
—Brandi D. Addison, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Dire wolves did overlap with early humans at the end of the Ice Age, around 11,500 years ago, but humans had barely invented agriculture at that point, let alone begun building the cities and interstate highways that would encroach upon the natural world.
—Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2025
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“The Ice Age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Ice%20Age. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.
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