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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But at the end of the Ice Age, mammoth populations had dwindled and fragmented.
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Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
Before founding Illumination, which has an exclusive partnership with Universal Pictures, Meledandri was president of 20th Century Fox Animation, where he executive produced some of the studio’s most popular films, including the Ice Age movies, Robots and Horton Hears a Who.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024
From the Ice Age to the Age of A.I.
Tumbleweeds the size of trash cans blew across the road as Alex Ybarra, a state representative, steered his black S.U.V. through Quincy, population 8,315.
—Jovelle Tamayo, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
While mammoths were adapted to cold, open tundras and the grasslands of Europe, North America and Asia during the Ice Age, mastodons were found in woodlands and swampy areas across Central and North America.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
Before founding Illumination, which has an exclusive partnership with Universal Pictures, Meledandri was president of 20th Century Fox Animation, where he executive produced some of the studio’s most popular films, including the Ice Age movies, Robots and Horton Hears a Who.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024
From the Ice Age to the Age of A.I.
Tumbleweeds the size of trash cans blew across the road as Alex Ybarra, a state representative, steered his black S.U.V. through Quincy, population 8,315.
—Jovelle Tamayo, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
While mammoths were adapted to cold, open tundras and the grasslands of Europe, North America and Asia during the Ice Age, mastodons were found in woodlands and swampy areas across Central and North America.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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“The Ice Age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Ice%20Age. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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