ice age
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This area contains a series of long, shallow grooves set within a landscape of deep valleys, scattered impact craters, and surface textures that point to a distant ice age on the Red Planet.
From Science Daily
The glacier shed eight kilometers of ice in that short period, a pace comparable to the rapid withdrawals that marked the end of the last ice age.
From Science Daily
This revealed that, nearly 11,000 years ago, just after the last ice age, dog skulls started to change shape.
From BBC
"During the last ice age, there was almost no cosmic dust in the Arctic sediments," he said.
From Science Daily
In the 1970s, we were warned about a new ice age and in the 1980s of a nuclear winter.
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