Tag Archives: Ice Age

Indo-German joint research team has discovered a rare fossil of the limb of a dinosaur at Kas Hill in Lodai area of Kutch in Gujarat, joining Balasinor, the only other site where several such fossils were found earlier. The 10-meter-long herbivore became extinct millions of years ago and the fossil remains found on January 19 were about 130 million years ...

Pioneering new research has shed new light on the causes behind an ‘ice-age’ that took place on Earth around 170 million years ago. An international team of experts, including researchers from the Camborne School of Mines, have found evidence of a large and abrupt cooling of the Earth’s temperature during the Jurassic Period, which lasted millions of years. The scientists ...

While world is aware of a plethora of causes which receded the last Ice Age such as solar radiation, ocean currents and others, a new study has focused on mere carbon dioxide that it said had resulted mainly in eroding the glaciers. The study based on measuring isotopes in boulders uncovered during the global meltdown 11,000 years ago, said the ...

  A new study examined how the circulation of the ocean north of Iceland – the combined Arctic Ocean and Nordic Seas, called the Arctic Mediterranean – changed since the end of the last Ice Age (~20,000-30,000 years ago) to come out with the cause that could have ended the last Ice Age. Today, the ocean is cooled by the ...

The scientists have unearthed remains of two Ice Age infants, buried more than 11,000 years ago at a site in Alaska, bringing in new insights into the burial practices and other related rituals of early society. These findings represent the oldest human remains ever found in northern North America. Researcher at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, in the US, Ben ...