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changes that occurred during the last ice age
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But this makes little sense because dire wolves, like woolly mammoths, have been extinct for thousands of years and lived in an ice age ecosystem that no longer exists.
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Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 10 Apr. 2025
However, because these edits were based on modern wolf DNA and computational modeling, the resulting animals are approximations of their ice age ancestors, not replicas.
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
Bone hunters: See how explorers in Russia’s Yakutia region dive into icy rivers for the remnants of ice age creatures like mammoths.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2025
According to Pelton, bone needles are common during this period in the North American archaeological record because sewing complex weather garments for freezing weather was a necessity in response to the cold climate shift brought on by the last ice age.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 27 Nov. 2024
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Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 10 Apr. 2025
However, because these edits were based on modern wolf DNA and computational modeling, the resulting animals are approximations of their ice age ancestors, not replicas.
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
Bone hunters: See how explorers in Russia’s Yakutia region dive into icy rivers for the remnants of ice age creatures like mammoths.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2025
According to Pelton, bone needles are common during this period in the North American archaeological record because sewing complex weather garments for freezing weather was a necessity in response to the cold climate shift brought on by the last ice age.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Ice age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20age. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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