And while scientists are not predicting mass species extinctions, it never hurts to prepare for the worst. I bring this up because, cinematically speaking, the interglacial period we have enjoyed for most of the last three years ends today and a new glacial is upon us, in the form of Ice Age: Continental Drift. What we typically refer to as "the ice age" is the most recent glacial period, which ended some 10,000 years ago. But ice ages have colder periods (called "glacials") and warmer ones ("interglacials"). First, owing to the endurance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, we are still technically in the midst of an ice age that began toward the end of the Pliocene epoch, a hair over two-and-a-half million years ago. I've recently learned a few things about ice ages.
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