As the ice melted that last time, starting about 20,000 years ago, water seeking its level sometimes got caught behind dams formed by till or blocks of ice. When that kind of dam broke it was a ...

The giant ice sheet formed during a period of the last ice age known as the mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT) that lasted between 1.3 million and 700,000 years ago.

Before Ice Age Fossils State Park was even an idea, there was the Big Dig. From October 1962 to January 1963, archeologists near Tule Springs Ranch moved 200,000 tons of dirt and dug trenches ...

Roughly 13,000 years ago, big ice age animals like saber toothed cats and the American lion and mammoths started going extinct in the Los Angeles Basin. That was about 1,000 years before their ...

Our current geologic epoch, the Holocene, began 11,700 years ago with the end of the last big ice age. ... Ice Age begins. 34 million years ago. Dinosaurs go extinct. 65 million years ago.

Prehistoric fossils dating back to the Ice Age discovered in South Louisiana. What prehistoric animals used to roam Louisiana?

Travel back 20,000 years into the last Ice Age, to a time when the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains were treeless and the ...

"We only see conclusive evidence for one big ice advance during that time period," Batchelor said, ... (The ice age itself began approximately 2.6 million years ago and ended 11,700 years ago.) ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud.