And it sent the world into a cold snap that lasted around 1,200 years. For example, ... There were many climate changes before the Younger Dryas that were just as abrupt.

Media outlets around the world covered the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis. It has been the subject of two more books and multiple documentaries, including one produced by PBS NOVA.

Could an archaic species of human have survived up to 11,500 years ago? Recent findings from the Red Deer Cave near Mengzi City in Yunnan Province, China, raise intriguing questions about these humans ...

When these tools can be dated, they are consistently from 12,900 to 11,700 years ago, closely matching the timing of the Younger Dryas. This is a period where the world cooled dramatically, before ...

About 12,800 years ago, much of the Earth was plunged into a mini ice age, leading to the extinction of many megafauna species. What exactly caused this period, known as the Younger Dryas, is ...

Younger Dryas spikes in platinum have also been found in Greenland, Eurasia, North America, Mexico and recently also at Pilauco in Chile. Wonderkrater is the 30th site in the world for such evidence.

To better understand the mechanisms of the Younger Dryas event, which induced extreme climate change at the end of the last Ice Age of the Pleistocene Epoch, researchers analyzed the isotopic ...