Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today.

The last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago ... Since the outset of the Quaternary, whales and sharks have ruled the seas, topping a food chain with otters, seals, dugongs, fish, squid ...

We are investigating the causes of variation in mammal body size during the Quaternary period by comparing ice-age mammal species from the past 750,000 years in Britain. The Quaternary is the most ...

We are focusing on extinct species from Europe and northern Asia, along with some from North America, including: We are using large compilations of carefully audited radiocarbon dates for each mammal ...

1993), with precipitation playing a lesser role in governing the growth and decay of ice. The major late Quaternary ice sheets are the Laurentide (LIS), Cordilleran (CIS), Scandinavian (SIS ...