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 ...

"The Quaternary Ice Age" is the general subject of a series of six illustrated Shaler Memorial Lectures to be given by Dr. Ernst Antevs, Docent of the University of Stockholm. The first lecture ...

Fossils from the Quaternary ice ages provide excellent opportunities for ... of transformation leading to the highly-specialised woolly mammoth of the late ice age, adapted to cold, treeless ...

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 ...

Known today as the Los Chocoyos supereruption, it was one of the largest of the Quaternary period ... could contribute to the onset of cold, ice-age conditions,” said study lead author Helen ...

The study was published in Quaternary Science Advances, a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of past environments ...