the Ice Age
noun
: the most recent time in the past when a large part of the world was covered with ice
a valley formed during the Ice Age
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Since the Ice Age, elkhorn and staghorn corals off Florida’s southern coast have been stacking their skeletons into elaborate, branching homes for parrotfish, eels and octopuses.
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Evan Bush, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
The Proto-Indo-Europeans are recent arrivals in our species’ story; the Ice Age ended twelve thousand years ago, the out-of-Africa migration took place around sixty thousand years ago, and Homo sapiens emerged about three hundred thousand years ago.
—Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
The tale follows a young girl named Ayla through an unfamiliar world in the Ice Age.
—Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
Hometown Highlight stops can also allow visitors to be entered into a drawing for a chance to win a gift certifcate to the Ice Age Trail Alliance online store.
—Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025
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Evan Bush, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
The Proto-Indo-Europeans are recent arrivals in our species’ story; the Ice Age ended twelve thousand years ago, the out-of-Africa migration took place around sixty thousand years ago, and Homo sapiens emerged about three hundred thousand years ago.
—Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
The tale follows a young girl named Ayla through an unfamiliar world in the Ice Age.
—Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
Hometown Highlight stops can also allow visitors to be entered into a drawing for a chance to win a gift certifcate to the Ice Age Trail Alliance online store.
—Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025
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