Tag: ice age

July 6, 2022

Arctic mammals respond to changing climate

To understand how Arctic species might respond to climate change, researchers dug into how cold-adapted species responded between previous ice ages. Biologists had concluded that as massive ice sheets retreated,...

October 7, 2019

Is an asteroid responsible for earth’s biodiversity?

What if a cataclysmic asteroid collision was one of the best things to happen to biodiversity on earth? An international team of researchers concluded that a collision of asteroids between...

May 25, 2018

Bison size shrinking as temperatures rise

When Jeff Martin was growing up on a bison (Bison bison) ranch, he noticed the bison surrounding him were much smaller than the ones he saw in ice age dioramas...