What Was North America Like During The Ice Age?

What Was North America Like During The Ice Age?

The most recent Ice Age occurred in the Pleistocene epoch, a period that started about 2.6 million years ago and ended just 11,000 years ago. During this period, the world, and particularly the wildlife, looked very different.
Much of the continent at the time was buried under the enormous Laurentide Ice Sheet, a mass of ice, miles deep, which extended as far south as Illinois. Alaska, however, remained largely glacier-free, due to a lack of precipitation. As sea levels were much lower, it was connected to Asia via a land bridge known as Beringia, which allowed animals, and eventually humans, to cross between the two continents.

➽Narrated by: Zach Brown

#NorthAmerica #IceAge #Pleistocene

[dariusbrock]

Too bad North America lost so much of it's mega fauna. Would've been interesting to see them in national parks.

[benmcreynolds]

God, I have realized that this era is got to be the most facinating era to me now. It's really fun to imagine what North America and the entire globe was like during those times because the biodiversity is so awesome. To think about seeing the different ecosystem and all the ways things interacted. Our imagination is vast but nature always finds a way to surpass and even surprise my imagination. Nature is beyond awesome. 👍

[arronjerden]

One little nit-pick, the latest Ice-age did not end 11, 000 years ago. We are still in it as there are still permanent ice sheets at the poles and glaciers in most major mountain ranges.

[matthewharris]

Seems that these animals were all bigger than their modern day counterparts.

[indyreno]

There were also extinct dogs in North America like this fox scientifically named "Alopex stenognathus" which is an extinct ancestor of the Swift Fox (Alopex velox) and Kit Fox (Alopex macrotis).

[WK_MERCURY]

My gf and I once went to a museum is Raleigh NC and one of the exhibits had an audio clip you could play. The narrator said that prehistoric NC was a very different and terrifying place.

[dejiadeleye]

Don't forget there were Bears as well, both modern-day and extinct. Nature was a wild place back then. Obviously it still is today, but some of these extinct creatures seem almost alien-like.

[johnyg]

This is the type of videos and information that absolutely fascinate me. I was able to learn even more about the North American fauna on this time period. Great video 👍🏼

[spianist]

They forgot the two North American llama like camelids, North American tapirs, ocelots, capybaras, etc. North America really was cool back in the late Pleistocene. Such a shame they all are extinct or disappeared from this continent.

[josesalinasmorales]

The American cheetah is actually a close relative of the puma.

[ILaunchNukes]

Would you rather live in North America, Europe, or Africa during the Ice Age?

[devinmartin]

The way the narrator draws out and emphasizes the last word of almost every sentence is funny as phuque.

[joehebert]

This is an awesome video on prehistoric America. I love learning about this stuff I find fascinating. Thank you.

[Phin-germayas]

I was waiting for explosions the entire time with the dudes narrating the way he was

[tristanbrenner]

Unless i didnt read all the comment replies I can’t believe no one’s commented on the narrator’s delivery. That was killin me.

[DWM]

My guy said Florida being twice as big as it is today... The Map shows Florida completely under water except for a little bit of the big bend, Tallahassee to a little past Panama City.

[michaelpenza]

"With Florida being double its modern size"...as the video shows a map with Florida completely submerged under water.

[laabitres]

Ive been fascinated with this and dinosaurs since ive had memory

[gigatron]

Good description of the ICE AGE BEAST, SMILODON, although along Mammoths.

[Bustizin]

Man do a video talking about how the South America was