Posts Tagged ‘ice age’

WFS News: Boy trips, falls and discovers million-year-old Ice Age fossil

@ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev,Fossil Researchers have their hands on a rare fossil from the Pleistocene era thanks to a 10-year-old’s clumsiness.Jude Sparks said he literally fell on the 1.2-million-year-old skull of a stegomastodon — a massive prehistoric creature with tusks like an elephant — while on a hike with his parents […]

WFS Facts : The Pleistocene Epoch,Last Ice Age

@WFS,world Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The Pleistocene Epoch is typically defined as the time period that began about 1.8 million years ago and lasted until about 11,700 years ago. The most recent Ice Age occurred then, as glaciers covered huge parts of the planet Earth. There have been at least five documented major […]

WFS News: One of greatest mass extinctions was due to an ice age and not to Earth’s warming

WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Earth has known several mass extinctions over the course of its history. One of the most important happened at the Permian-Triassic boundary 250 million years ago. Over 95% of marine species disappeared and, up until now, scientists have linked this extinction to a significant rise in Earth temperatures. […]