It is often referred to as "the last ice age" and is best known for hosting now-extinct megafauna, such as woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius), giant ground sloths and saber-toothed cats.

The researchers found that instead of hopping with just their feet breaking the surface, as older studies had described anecdotally, the frogs were actually doing a series of belly flops—sinking ...

With centuries’ old primary source documents, a team of researchers in Romania are exploring how a region best known for vampire legends was drastically altered by the effects of the Little Ice Age.

Finally, the frog pulls in its limbs to prepare for the next jump. Cricket frogs cyclically jump and belly flop their way across water. This high-speed video shows their “porpoising ...

Feb. 12, 2025 — A study gives possible insight into the underprediction of sea ice depletion and the formation of Arctic cyclones. The study could lead to more accurate weather and climate ...

Although the frog's leap out of the water appeared graceful, the return to the surface more closely resembled a belly flop. Each frog's jump cycled through four stages in less than a second: a ...

This ocean current transports warm waters from the equator towards the Earth’s poles. If the AMOC collapses, middle and northern Europe might be in for a new ice age as temperatures could dip by up to ...

From epic belly flops to wild slip 'n slide wipeouts, these watery mishaps are guaranteed to make waves. Grab a towel—you’re about to laugh till you cry! ICE arrests more than 530 migrants in ...

The analog is that humanity's fire practices have become so vast, especially in recent centuries, that we are creating the fire equivalent of an ice age. Humanity and fire have been reforging the ...

At age 75, Vadevino Alano keeps up a brisk pace ... to protect themselves from a colder and drier climate” during ice ages. Ground sloths might also have used the caves to hide offspring from ...