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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 429

ice age

This illustration provided by researchers depicts Kap Kobenhavn, Greenland, two million years ago, when the temperature was significantly warmer than northernmost Greenland today. (Beth Zaiken via AP)
December 8, 2022, 2:17 am
Oldest-ever extracted DNA reveals life in Greenland two million years ago
Scientists find 41 fragments of hereditary material in sediment that was preserved due to freezing climate, giving researchers more information about the adaptability of species
By Camille BAS-WOHLERT
Extinct species of cave bear excavated in Devil's Cave, near Pottenstein, Germany. (Ra'ike, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)
May 10, 2022, 12:34 pm
Big brains helped large mammals survive extinction, study shows
Behavioral flexibility, thanks to large brain-to-body ratio, gave species evolutionary advantage in face of climate change and human hunters
By Sue Surkes
A gazelle in southern Israel, July 14, 2017. Ice Age humans feasted on gazelle, along with smaller prey animals, according to a new Hebrew University study. (Haim Shohat/Flash90)
January 26, 2022, 10:32 pm
Ice Age humans in Israel lived the good life while contemporaries starved — study
Hunter-gatherers on the Sea of Galilee 23,000 years ago enjoyed a broad diet and abundant food sources during an era of global scarcity, Hebrew University researchers say
By Luke Tress
The prehistoric archaeological site Jordan River Dureijat (Jordan River Stairs) on the shores of Lake Hula. (Prof. Gonen Sharon, Tel-Hai College)
November 24, 2021, 3:08 pm
Israeli researchers identify chilly transition to farming at end of last ice age
In first such model of region at time, study examines botanic remains in Hula Valley to build picture of fluctuations in climate, rain distribution that shaped agricultural society
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative: Researchers with a baby woolly mammoth discovered frozen in clay and mud in Russia's Yamal Peninsula of Siberia and considered to be the most complete example of the species ever found, at the Natural History Museum in London, May 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
February 17, 2021, 7:31 pm
Million-year-old mammoth teeth yield world’s oldest DNA sequence
Analysis of genomes from extinct species reveals previously unrecognized genetic lineage and shines light on the Ice Age and the life of its giant mammals
By Kelly MacNamara
In this aerial view, fountains of lava, up to 60 meters high, spurt from a fissure in the ground on the north side of the Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland, Tuesday, September 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Stefano Di Nicolo)
November 20, 2018, 7:00 pm
Harvard historian pinpoints the worst year ever to be alive — and it’s not 2018
An international interdisciplinary team of academics discovers evidence of a catastrophic volcanic eruption on Iceland that spurred a snow-ball effect causing a whole world of pain
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
In this image made from video, the remains of the 42,000-year-old "Mungo Man" are unloaded and placed on the ground during a traditional ceremony in Lake Mungo, Australia, Friday, Nov. 17, 2017. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation via AP)
November 17, 2017, 10:48 am
Oldest Australian human returned to 42,000-year-old grave
Mungo Man, found in 1974 under a dune alongside Lake Mungo in the Outback, lived to ripe old age of 50 and was mourned when he died
By AP
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