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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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.
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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
When that happens, all the high-meadow remnants of the Ice Age will be pushed off the top of the mountain and disappear.
—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
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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
When that happens, all the high-meadow remnants of the Ice Age will be pushed off the top of the mountain and disappear.
—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
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“The Ice Age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Ice%20Age. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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