Tag: ice age
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ESCONI November 2025 General Meeting – November 14th, 2025 at 8:00 PM via Zoom – “Mammals of Illinois’ Ice Ages”
The November 2025 General Meeting will be held on Friday, November 14th, 2025 at 8:00 via Zoom. Melissa Pardi, Curator of Geology at the Illinois State Museum, will be presenting “Mammals of Illinois’ Ice Ages”. Did you know that Illinois used to have elephants? During the last ice age, North America was home to a…
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Video for ESCONI June 2025 General Meeting – “New discoveries in Inner Space Cavern reveal the animals of Ice Age Texas”
The June 2025 General Meeting was held on June 13th, 2025 via Zoom. Our speaker was John A. Moretti of the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin. His topic was “New discoveries in Inner Space Cavern reveal the animals of Ice Age Texas“. Summary from John Moretti New discoveries in…
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ESCONI Events for June 2025
Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Fri, June 13th ESCONI General Meeting – 8:00 PM via Zoom – Topic: “New discoveries in Inner Space Cavernreveal the animals of Ice Age Texas” by John A. Moretti of the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin Zoom link…
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Video for ESCONI April 2024 General Meeting – “Ice age mammals from the frozen North”
The ESCONI General Meeting for April 2024 was held on Friday, April 12th, 2024 at 8:00 PM zia Zoom. The topic of the presentation is “Ice age mammals from the frozen North“. It was given by Yukon Paleontologist Grant Zazula. Ever since the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898, Yukon miners in search of shiny gold nuggets…
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ESCONI April 2024 General Meeting – Friday, April 12th, 2024 at 8:00 PM via Zoom – “Ice age mammals from the frozen North”
The ESCONI General Meeting for April 2024 will be held on Friday, April 12th, 2024 at 8:00 PM zia Zoom. The topic of the presentation is “Ice age mammals from the frozen North“. It will be given by Yukon Paleontologist Grant Zazula. Ever since the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898, Yukon miners in search of…
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Mammoth and Horse DNA Left in Freezer Rewrite Ice Age Extinctions
Smithsonian Magazine has a story about research that shows that woolly mammoths and other Ice Age animals survived up to about 5,000 years ago instead of the accepted 13,000 years. Frozen permafrost samples collected about 10 years ago were analyzed and they revealed DNA of wooly mammoths, wild horses, and steppe bison. The research was…
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PBS Eons: When the Earth Suddenly Stopped Warming
PBS Eons has a new episode about the end of the most recent ice age. It’s called the Younger Dryas period. And, it was a time when the global climate cooled after a period of warming. While we understand what happened, the cause of it has been a mystery. From ice lakes, to volcanoes,…
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Why Did These Human-Sized Beavers Go Extinct During the Last Ice Age?
The Smithsonian.com has a post about the extinction of 7 foot tall beavers. Up until just over 10,000 years ago, large beavers weighting upwards of 220 pounds roamed a large part of North America, from Alaska and Canada to Florida. A new study, by a group of Canadian researchers, was published in the journal Scientific…
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Book Review – Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World
The Inquisitive Biologist has an interesting (and complete!) book review of “Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World” by George R McGhee, Jr. It caused me to run out (ok, click) and buy the ebook. So far, it’s very good. The ebook is available at all the usual book sites, Amazon,…
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Events for 2nd half of October, 2011
Sat. 10/22 Archaeology Study Group. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 161. Floyd Rogers will present on Flintnapping. Attend this session to learn how to make arrowheads. Fri. 10/28 Board Meeting. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 161. Also, the Burpee Museum in Rockford just opened with their new Ice Age…
