Tag: Ice age
Greenland was ice free 400,000 years ago – knowledge
Large parts of Greenland was still free of ice a good 400,000 years ago and resembled a tundra landscape. This is what an international research team reports after analyzing an…
Near See in Schöningen: Researchers find Germany’s oldest human footprints – Knowledge
Lignite was once excavated here, but for archaeologists the Schöningen opencast mine, which has since been shut down, is now a gold mine. As early as the 1990s, scientists found…
Researchers find the oldest human footprints in Germany – knowledge
Lignite was once excavated here, but for archaeologists the Schöningen opencast mine, which has since been shut down, is now a gold mine. As early as the 1990s, scientists found…
Paleontology: How Mammoths Survived the Ice Age – Knowledge
Smaller ears, thicker fur: A genome analysis shows how woolly mammoths have adapted to the climate over hundreds of thousands of years. A research team led by David Díez-del-Molino from…
Middle Ages: How the Moon Heralded the Little Ice Age – Knowledge
Records from monks about lunar eclipses provide information about unusually violent volcanic eruptions in the Middle Ages. From hundreds of texts from Europe and Asia, an international research team concludes…
Archaeology: The mysterious signs of our ancestors
Ice Age people would paint similar symbols on cave walls. Well, researchers think they’ve finally cracked the code. Really? source site
How early Europeans got through the Ice Age – Knowledge
A large genome analysis delivers several surprises: Before the last glacial period, there were several groups of people in Europe who apparently had no contact with each other. And in…
SZ climate column: Hope dies last – knowledge
The climate catastrophe is not for sensitive minds. You have to be able to endure the reporting alone, more precisely: the oscillation between horror, horror and despair associated with it.…
Can a nuclear repository defy climate change? – Knowledge
The earth trembles, flash floods tear villages away, thick layers of ice deform the world: It is hard to believe that in the face of powerful forces of nature there…
Archaeology: Large animals with small brains were more likely to die out – knowledge
The European forest elephant was a colossus. Bulls reached a shoulder height of more than four meters and weighed up to eleven tons, so the animals were about a third…