But once Gondwana took up its polar position in the late Ordovician, massive glaciers formed over Africa at the supercontinent's center. This heralded a 20-million-year ice age during which ...

Researchers has uncovered never before seen details in a set of prehistoric stone objects that feature a variety of artworks.

"Studies of micrometeorites in mid-Ordovician limestones and impact craters ... ago that may have been at the origin of an Ordovician ice age and major turnover in biodiversity," one team explains ...

(Periods, such as the Ordovician and the Cretaceous ... to stave off what otherwise would have been the start of a new ice age; in his view, humans have been the dominant force on the planet ...

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Late Ordovician Period - The Ordovician Period refers to the ... This interval is also referred to as the "Ice Age". Plutonic - Plutonic rocks are igneous rocks that crystallize below the earth's ...

Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, and Queen Latifah are returning for "Ice Age 6," Disney and 20th Century Animation ...

Disney announced at D23 Brazil that a sixth 'Ice Age' film is in the works with Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Queen Latifah, Denis Leary and Simon Pegg ...

The actors announced the news with fellow castmember John Leguizamo in a video shown at D23 Brazil and shared on social media.

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a ...

The warmth of the long summer afternoons of the most recent ice age sent great freshets of glacial meltwater, milky white with suspended rock flour, into Glacial Lake Missoula. Rock flour settled ...