Stories 1 - 10 for Dryas

Around 12800 years ago the northern hemisphere was hit by a mini ice-age, known by scientists as the Younger Dryas, and nicknamed the 'Big Freeze', ...

Dr David Martin-Jones, author of a new book on Scottish film, believes that in the last decade the Loch Ness monster has been rebranded as a `welcoming, ...

The freshwater loch was still there during the last expansion of glacier ice during the Younger Dryas (a rapid climate-change event). ...

The Canadian researchers bring the Younger Dryas, also known as the “Big Freeze,” as proof. This was an event more than 12000 years ago, which saw the ...

What Gill and colleagues are saying is that the vegetation shift happened before the Younger Dryas cooling period, long thought to be the engineer for ...

One is severe climate change, brought about by the onset of the Younger Dryas global cooling event. Another is overhunting by a newly arrived human ...

Ice cores drilled from the Greenland ice cap have already shown that the big freeze of 12800 years ago - known as the Younger Dryas mini-ice age - happened ...

The megafaunal extinction predated a rapid, millennium-long chill called the Younger Dryas that took place around 11500 and 12800 years ago. ...

... at the University of California, Santa Barbara says it's clear that the extinctions couldn't have been caused by a cold snap called the Younger Dryas. ...