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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When that happens, all the high-meadow remnants of the Ice Age will be pushed off the top of the mountain and disappear.
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Lewis Hyde, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
Head out onto the water to sail around the archipelago, keeping your eyes peeled for breaching minke whales and bearded seals, as well as shaggy muskoxen—one of the few megafauna to survive the Ice Age—and Arctic wolves patrolling the shoreline.
—Chloe Berge, Outside Online, 17 June 2025
But dire wolves were real creatures that once roamed across North and South America during the Pleistocene epoch, standing taller than modern gray wolves with more robust builds and greater jaw strength, perfectly evolved to hunt the megafauna of the Ice Age.
—Nia Bowers, USA Today, 24 May 2025
What this tells us is that human presence in high-altitude open areas during the Ice Age was not just a possibility, but a reality.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 5 June 2025
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Lewis Hyde, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
Head out onto the water to sail around the archipelago, keeping your eyes peeled for breaching minke whales and bearded seals, as well as shaggy muskoxen—one of the few megafauna to survive the Ice Age—and Arctic wolves patrolling the shoreline.
—Chloe Berge, Outside Online, 17 June 2025
But dire wolves were real creatures that once roamed across North and South America during the Pleistocene epoch, standing taller than modern gray wolves with more robust builds and greater jaw strength, perfectly evolved to hunt the megafauna of the Ice Age.
—Nia Bowers, USA Today, 24 May 2025
What this tells us is that human presence in high-altitude open areas during the Ice Age was not just a possibility, but a reality.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 5 June 2025
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“The Ice Age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Ice%20Age. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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