How the Ice Age Ended and Why the Megafauna Extinctions That Followed Are Still Deeply Controversial
Ten thousand years ago, give or take a millennium, something enormous and slow finally gave way. Ice sheets that had buried entire continents for tens of thousands of years began retreating, and within a geological blink, mammoths, giant sloths, saber-toothed cats, and dozens of other outsized creatures vanished from the planet almost entirely. What’s strange ...












