Tag: ice age
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PBS Eons: The Curious Case of the Cave Lion
PBS Eons has a new episode. This one is about large cats from ancient Eurasia. A mysterious, large feline roamed Eurasia during the last ice age. Its fossils have been found across the continent, and it’s been the subject of ancient artwork. So what exactly were these big cats?
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PBS Eons: How To Survive the Little Ice Age
There’s a new episode of PBS Eons. Instead of northern Europe, this one looks at the little ice age in North America and how people survived. Nunalleq, a village in what’s today southwest Alaska, seemed to have thrived during the Little Ice Age. How did this village manage to survive and prosper during this…
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PBS Eons: Why Male Mammoths Lost the Game
There’s a new episode of PBS Eons. This one is about male mammoths and their dangerous and mostly solitary existence. Woolly mammoths, our favorite ice age proboscidean, disappeared from Europe and North America at the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago. Today, we’ve teamed up with TierZoo to solve one…
