Ice age
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Nov 6, 2026
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They were made by taking genetic sequences from dire wolf fossils and splicing them into modern gray wolf DNA.
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Dire wolves once lived all over the Americas until they went extinct about 10,000 years ago when the mammoths and other huge Ice Age animals that they feasted on also became extinct.
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Researchers made 20 edits on 14 gray wolf genes, which doesn't sound like a lot, but it makes a huge impact.
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Dire wolves and gray wolves are very similar genetically, so it wouldn't take a lot to change one into the other.
JamesHOST
Egyptian texts talk about this primordial period when divine beings established order, kingship, and sacred places, and modern writers begin asking whether the first time might preserve the memory of an actual earlier civilization.
JamesHOST
If you move that period back toward the end of the Ice Age, then all sorts of other things begin lining up, at least within the alternative model.
JamesHOST
You have the end of a major climatic period, rising sea levels, flood traditions around the world, Atlantis and Plato, and then Egypt appearing later with a highly developed religious and astronomical system that constantly looks backward to an age when the gods themselves were supposed to have been present.
JamesHOST
Atlantis fits into that almost automatically because Plato's story already brings Egypt into it.
Dave FarinaHOST
These were either thrown just as a spear or with the assistance of a tool called the atlatl.
Dave FarinaHOST
The atlatl was an Ice Age invention that let people throw darts much harder and farther.
Dave FarinaHOST
Arrow points are projectile points that were attached to an arrow and shot from a bow.
Dave FarinaHOST
The main way to distinguish between these two is size.
Hugh NewmanGUEST
But the thing about Quebec-Litepe that people don't realize is that it's 9,600 BC.
Hugh NewmanGUEST
So right at the end of the last ice age.
Hugh NewmanGUEST
And out of nowhere, it seems, these gigantic megalithic structures were being constructed.
Hugh NewmanGUEST
Not just like stone circles like you get in Britain where you get rough-hewn stones piled in these circles and things like this.
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Hugh NewmanGUEST
I mean, I think it's some kind of ritualistic process as well.
Mark GagnonHOST
And now was the area as so rich in wildlife and natural growing foods that they could have subsisted in this area for a long time?
Hugh NewmanGUEST
yes back then at the end of the last ice age going into around 9800 bc onwards it was lusher it was greener after the ice age when the weather improved um more animals were you know frolicking around everywhere there was plants everywhere there were trees not not big forests as such but there were trees and areas not Water was the issue because there's not much water at either Carahan Tepe or Gobekli Tepe.
Hugh NewmanGUEST
But we do have the Euphrates running through this region.
Brett HurtGUEST
then we would have burned everybody alive when we discovered fire and you and I wouldn't be having this conversation right now.
Brett HurtGUEST
During the Ice Age, you can trace this in the genealogical records, we got down to 3,000 human beings.
Brett HurtGUEST
3,000 of us were left.
Brett HurtGUEST
And if our core nature was bad during the Ice Age, guess what? We would not be here.
Brett HurtGUEST
We figured out a way to collaborate.
Brett HurtGUEST
So the big question, and it's especially prescient now with Dario Amadei's piece coming out, As of the time you and I are recording this, that just came out five days ago, this call to pace the frontier.
LilyHOST
That's an important clue too, detective.
LilyHOST
Imagine people living during the last ice age, thousands and thousands of years ago.
LilyHOST
They moved around to find food and shelter.
LilyHOST
They hunted animals and made camps where they could rest.
Wes OlsonGUEST
So it's a description of how bison have ended up where they are.
Wes OlsonGUEST
And we've been talking now about the Ice Ages
Matt SkoglundGUEST
and
Wes OlsonGUEST
the Pleistocene ended 10,000, 11,000 years ago.
Ted RallHOST
He trekked through dangerous jungles in Central America, encountered armed gangs, faced a polar bear in Siberia, and was jailed in Panama and Russia.
Ted RallHOST
He crossed the frozen Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia, like it was like the Ice Age, spent 31 days swimming across the Caspian Sea.
Ted RallHOST
What? and even swam the English Channel to reach Britain.
Ted RallHOST
It takes 12 hours to take a ferry across the Caspian Sea.
FrancisHOST
Do you know how that show ended? No.
FrancisHOST
The Ice Age happened and they all died.
JennaHOST
That's a good way to end the show.
JennaHOST
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Peter CairnsGUEST
But if you flip that around and talk about what we generally recognize as the animals that, in inverted commas, should be here, are what we refer to as native species.
Peter CairnsGUEST
And even that is a bit arbitrary because native species is really defined by those species that were here or colonized here after the last of the Ice Age.
Peter CairnsGUEST
So we're only going back... you know, eight, nine, 10,000 years, which is pretty much a nanosecond really in geological time.
Peter CairnsGUEST
But that's the line that we've drawn in the sand and said, right, everything this side of that line has a rightful place in this country.
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