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The early history of Earth covers such vast stretches of time that years, centuries, and even millennia become virtually meaningless. Instead, paleontologists and scientists who study geochronology divide time into periods and eras.
What humans commonly refer to as the "Ice Age" is actually a series of fluctuating climate events that have occurred throughout the planet's history. These ongoing historical phenomena are difficult to conceptualize because...
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Everyone's favorite sub-zero heroes are back for an all-new adventure you won't want to miss! Iced In reunites prehistoric friends Manny the woolly mammoth, Sid the sloth, Diego the smilodon, Scrat the "saber-toothed" squirrel, and the rest of the your Paleolithic pals in one big unforgettable icecapade!
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Before the spring thaw, KABOOM! is serving up a mammoth heap of Ice Age! Join the bumbling Sid the Sloth, the practical Manny the Mammoth, the cunning Diego the Saber-tooth Tiger, and the hilarious saber-toothed squirrel Scrat in an exciting all new frozen adventure! Featuring wacky, beloved characters from the hit film series!
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Guest artists Riccardo Burchielli (DMZ), Patricio Delpeche, and Emily Schnall join Stephen Graham Jones-New York Times best-selling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart Is a Chainsaw-for a mission to the Ice Age exploring America's pre-Columbian past! When Martin and Tawny's children disappeared, the couple barreled into the desert to track them down at any cost. Instead, they ran afoul of another group of rovers who claimed to be saving the...
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The adventures of the popular time-traveling mouse Geronimo Stilton and his friends continue! This time, Geronimo's enemies the Pirate Cats have accidentally traveled back in time and wound up smack dap in the middle of the Ice Age! They decide to capture a great Wooly Mammoth and bring it back to the present to collect fame and fortune. Can Geronimo and friends stop the Pirate Cats' latest scheme in time?
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Explore the world of 15,000 years ago as the last ice age ended, and the vast ice sheets began to melt. Discover the scientific advances that have allowed us to describe that world in detail, a world with H. sapiens living on every continent except Antarctica. How did those people—very much like us today in appearance and thought—cope with such drastic change in their environment?
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By the time the Pleistocene Epoch ended around 12,000 years ago, Homo sapiens had become one of the most significant species on the planet. It was also near the end of that period of time that modern humans began to gradually populate what would become Europe, Asia, and the Americas, eventually becoming the inheritors of the Paleolithic era and the only human species to make it into the Neolithic era. The process was long and difficult, and the survival...
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When Martin and Tawny's children disappeared, the couple barreled into the desert to track them down at any cost. Instead, they ran afoul of another group of rovers who claimed to be saving the world by traveling through a cave portal to the year 1492 to prevent the creation of America-an idea that defied belief until the grieving parents were lured into the cave and vanished in time and space. Now alone, Tawny must adapt to the wild marshlands of...