The Quaternary period in Australasia encompasses dramatic shifts between glacial and interglacial intervals over the past 2.6 million years. During glacial maxima, extensive ice sheets formed on the ...

The Quaternary period spans the last 2.58 million years of Earth's history, including the Pleistocene and the on-going Holocene epochs. It is a time of significant climatic fluctuations and ...

Climate changes usually happens over long periods of time, but during the last glacial period, extreme fluctuations in temperature occurred within just a few years. Researchers have now been able to ...