The researchers believe that the Little
Ice Age of the 16th to 18th centuries may have been halted as a result of human activity.
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The gray wolf subspecies might not have survived the end of the
ice age because it depended on a steady supply of large carcasses, says Van Valkenburgh.
20,000 years ago, the Earth was being overrun by glaciers and creatures everywhere were fleeing the
Ice Age. Among them, Sid, a fast talking but dim sloth; Manny, a moody woolly mammoth; Diego, a devilish sabre-toothed tiger and Scrat, an acorn-crazy sabre-toothed squirrel.
Scientists have for years debated the reasons behind the
Ice Age mass extinctions, which caused the loss of a third of the large mammals in Eurasia and two thirds of the large mammals in North America.
At the height of the last
ice age, thick layers of ice covered much of northern Europe.
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In 2015-16 rare evidence for
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The author responds--No doubt the World's paleoclimatologists will be happy to hear that the mystery as to when the Little
Ice Age began has been solved.