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An Unusual Suspect: DId the Gulf Stream Trigger the Ice Age?

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Gulf Stream (cover image)
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Central American Seaway 
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https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/89813.php?from=293350
Attribution: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
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Ice Age An Unusual Suspect Central Ameri

Ellesmere Island map
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Through a Glass, Darkly: Our Incomplete View of Ice Age Ireland

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Ice Age globe showing Ireland completely covered in ice
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AIceAgeEarth.jpg
Attribution/Licence: By Ittiz (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Ice Age Giants: Ireland's Woolly Mammoths

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Woolly mammoth front view
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Attribution/Licence: By Tracy O (Flickr) [CC BY-SA 2.0  (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Musk oxen close-up
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/bering_land_bridge/15654129683
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All Fur Coat: How Mammoths Became 'Woolly'

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Woolly mammoth (cover image)
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Mammuthus subplanifrons
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https://www.deviantart.com/sameerprehistorica/art/South-African-Mammoth-550898472
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Ice Age All Fur Coat Mammuthus subplanif
Ice Age All Fur Coat Mammuthus trogonthe

Steppe mammoth, Mammuthus trogontherii
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https://www.deviantart.com/sameerprehistorica/art/Steppe-Mammoth-331974787

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Laughing at the Cold: Ireland's Ancient Hyenas

32,000-year-old rock painting from Chauvet Cave possibly of a cave hyena
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Ice Age Spotted Hyena rock painting Chau
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Fossil hyena species
Image from:
Fig.2 from Turner, Alan, Antón, Mauricio, & Werdelin, Lars (2008) Taxonomy and evolutionary patterns in the fossil Hyaenidae of Europe. Geobios 41 (5), 677–687.

Attribution: Mauricio Antón
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Spotted hyenas in the snow
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Ice Age Laughing at the Cold Spotted hye

From Ice-Land to Island: The Last Glacial Maximum & Birth of Island Ireland

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Last Glacial Maximum globe
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Ben Bulben, Co. Sligo

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewparnell/532965492
Attribution: Andrew Parnell on Flickr
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Ice Age Arctic sandwort Arenaria ciliata

Arctic sandwort (Arenaria ciliata)
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arenaria_ciliata.JPG
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The White Bear's Green Heritage? Polar Bears & Ice Age Ireland

Antarctic Temperature and Global Ice Volume chart 450 KYA to Present
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Attribution: Robert A. Rohde
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Ice Age Hoxnian Interglacial temp chart

Polar bear swimming underwater
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Polar bear/brown bear hybrid
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/derstefan/7303775984
Attribution: Stefan David, CamperCo.de
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Ice Age Polar Bear Brown Bear hybrid CC

Mouse cells showing nucleus, mitochondria, and cell skeleton
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/nichd/19124186316
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Animal cell simple diagram
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Mitochondrial DNA inheritance diagram
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Crowned as a True Ice Age King: The Giant Irish Deer

Ice Age giant Irish deer skeleton white

Giant Irish deer skeleton white background
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Attribution/Licence: By Franco Atirador ([1]) [CC BY-SA 2.5  (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons

Giant Irish deer size image
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Ice Age giant Irish deer skull from Lime

Giant Irish deer skull from Limerick bog
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/15443691062
Attribution: James St. John on Flickr
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Fallow deer
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Attribution/Licence: By Michael Palmer [CC BY-SA 4.0  (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

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The First Irish: New Evidence Rewrites the Story of the Earliest Modern Humans in Ireland

Dún Aonghasa aerial photo
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Attribution/Licence: Ronan Mac Giollapharaic [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)]

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Alice and Gwendoline Cave
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The First Irish Alice and Gwendoline Cav

Brown bear kneecap showing cutmarks
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Dr Marion Dowd in Alice and Gwendoline Cave
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The First Irish Dr Marion Dowd in Alice
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