What Was Europe Like During The Ice Age?

What Was Europe Like During The Ice Age?

For roughly the last 10,000 years, the Earth has had a mild and stable climate, but this was not always thus. When you look back over the previous 100,000 years Europe was a place of rapid and dramatic climate change, shifting from searing cold to balmy warmth. Occasionally these extreme climate changes took place in less than a generation. Just over 40,000 years ago, the first modern humans advanced into this unpredictable northern land.
The Ice age climate rendered vast tracts of the European landscape too cold and dry to permit tree growth. So, in place of forests were vast tracts of grassland and tundra. Plants from these two habitats met, mixed, and eventually covered much of eastern, central, and western Europe. This unique ‘tundra-steppe’ ecosystem thrived as the glaciers advanced and shriveled almost continuously.
The megafauna that still survives in Europe today is very familiar to us: red deer, caribou, bison, brown bears, and wolves. Other wonderful European monsters, which we are going to present to you, are now totally extinct.

➽Narrated by: Zach Brown

[indyreno]

Could you do South America during the ice age?

[pandascube]

' What Was Asia Like During The Ice Age' Bro plz..

[gladiatorkingoftheburnings]

Could you do oceania during the ice age next please

[jonathanroberts-bjyl]

What about the Straight-tusked elephant and Mammoth?

[renielezi]

Please can you do north america during the ice age next

[justinpelletier]

Great videos man. I really like your channel!

Video idea: who’s humans/our closest living relative, chimpanzees or bonobos?

[deanoconnor]

Interesting video, man! I really liked it!

[ericfaut]

You should do what was antarctica like during the ice age!

[prasunhalder]

Pls make a video on how asiatic lions, royal bengal tigers, Indian leopards and asiatic cheetahs co-exists in same habitat historically, when their ranges used to overlapped??? 🤔

[silashurd]

Imagine what it must’ve been like for a Brown Bear to encounter a Cave Bear🤔

[patg]

major error, 20 claws on EACH foot of the cave lion? No cat has EVER had that many even POLY (mutations that give a cat extra claws and toe beans in odd shapes) It says it at 7:48

And the large wolf you're referring to is called Dire Wolfs, some survived into human era and were killed by them.

[dakotawestphal]

Can you do what is the Philippines like during the ice age?

[phantasma]

Can you do what Africa was like during the ice age please 🥺.

[turtledunkknucklebaby]

Using teeth to determine diet has largely been discontinued. As it’s now understood that positive and negative selection pressures only remove genetic traits that are a detriment to the species survival.
Humans for example were hyper carnivores. Although we have the dental pattern of plant eaters. This is because humans never hunted with teeth or claws. We never bit our pre. Therefore there was no evolutionary pressure for us to to loose the teeth of our ancestors 5 million years ago. The rest of our physiology shows our adaption to meat though.

Now we use the perfected practice of carbon isotope testing of long bones, as it’s so precise we can not only tells what kind of diet the animal ate. But exactly what species the diet consisted of, and how much over a lifetime. Using this the diet of an animal is determined unequivocally, without having to guess at what evolutionary traits where kept, and for what purpose, as far as diet is concerned.

[maevblog]

I never heard about the european cave wolf

[maevblog]

Caribou's and reindeers are the same animals. The caribou is a north-american reindeer

[Raccoon__lord]

Me who played farcry primal and knows most the animals😎

[richardsanchez]

Isn't it pronounced pleistocene like plywood?

[ashleyoasis]

So basically everything in Africa now but bigger and wolly

[GeteMachine]

What was Africa like in the Ice Age? Thats something you never hear talked about.