Showing posts with label ice age. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ice age. Show all posts

Thursday, June 12, 2025

Southern California 20K years ago: Ice Age


The Ice Age secrets hiding beneath California
Native Californians and their kizh houses
(Voyager) June 7, 2025: CALIFORNIA. What’s hiding beneath California? This Ice Age deep-dive reveals fossils, lost megafauna (large animals), ancient humans (Natives), and the land before cities.

The paleobiota of the LA Tar Pits
Today, we journey back to a California few ever imagine, an ancient landscape buried beneath our cities, beaches, and freeways. Long before San Diego’s skyline rose or La Jolla’s cliffs drew surfers, this land was ruled by Columbian mammoths, saber-toothed cats, and early humans (pre-Clovis) who braved a world still shaped by ice. From submerged Kumeyaay village sites to fossil-filled tar pits and coastal cliffs hiding prehistoric secrets, this is the untold story of Ice Age California.

In this video
🔹 What San Diego, Los Angeles, and the Channel Islands such as Catalina looked like 20,000 years ago
🔹 The giants that once roamed the coast: mammoths, dire wolves, and saber-toothed cats
🔹 Human footprints on ancient shores — early seafarers, hunters, and toolmakers
🔹 How fossils found during construction projects and cliffside erosion are rewriting history
🔹 Why understanding the deep past matters in today’s changing world

Timecodes
  • 0:00 Hidden beneath California
  • 1:32 What California looked like 20,000 years ago
  • 5:15 Giants of the Ice Age: mammoths, saber-tooth tigers, and more
  • 9:15 Clues in unexpected places
  • 12:24 Pioneers of the Ice Age: California’s first people
  • 16:05 When the giants disappeared
  • 19:36 Traces in today’s world
  • 21:11 Outro and what comes next
Land of the Tongva became modern Los Angeles
ABOUT
: In this episode, Armando from Voyager takes viewers deep beneath the surface of California — into a forgotten world shaped during the last Ice Age. From saber-toothed cats and Columbian mammoths to early human seafarers and ancient submerged villages, we uncover the astonishing history hidden under modern-day San Diego and beyond. This journey blends science, storytelling, and Indigenous memory to reveal a California most people never imagined. Whether into fossils, archeology, or just want to see California in a whole new light, this is a story that redefines the land beneath our feet.
YouTube: @voyagerhq • Instagram: voyagerclips • TikTok: voyagerhq • Website: voyagertraveltips.comQUESTIONS: Have a question about Southern California or video topic requests? Drop it in the comments. #IceAgeCalifornia #PrehistoricCalifornia #CaliforniaHistory #AncientCalifornia #HiddenHistory.

20,000 years later in Trump's America

  • Armando, Voyager, June 7, 2025; Xochitl, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Monday, May 26, 2025

140K-y-o lost city found on bottom of ocean


A team of scientists has unearthed a concealed city beneath the ocean, potentially offering the first solid evidence of the mythical lost world.

Excavations revealed a Homo erectus skull, believed to be 140,000 years old, along with over 6,000 fossils from 36 species, such as Komodo dragons and elephants, in the Madura Strait off Indonesia.

Hypothetical sketch of monophylitic origin and diffusion of 12 varieties of men from Lemuria
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Sundaland fossils offer tangible proof.
Reported by the Daily Mail, these remnants were entombed under sediment in an area that was once part of Sundaland (Malesia), a massive Southeast Asian land bridge.
  • Hidden city built 140,000 years ago discovered at bottom of ocean (Osheen Yadav, May 24, 2025) Buried beneath the sea off the coast of Indonesia, scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery that could rewrite the story of human origins. The skull of Homo erectus, an ancient human ancestor, was discovered over 140,000 years after it was first buried, preserved beneath layers of silt and sand in the Madura Strait between the islands of Java [site of the world's largest excavated Buddhist temple known as Borobudur] and Madura. Experts say the site may be the first physical evidence of the lost world, a prehistoric landmass known as Sundaland that once connected Southeast Asia in a vast tropical plain. More: Daily Mail Online
Marks on some of the animal bones suggest early human hunting practices. The discoveries provide a window into the behaviors of our ancestors and their responses to shifting environments. More:

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Deep South deep freeze; forest found


It is snowing in Florida, North America's dangling participle, dripping into Trump's Gulf of Mexico America. This used to be the Deep South. (CBS Miami) A major winter storm is moving into northern Florida on Tuesday, bringing what will potentially be record-breaking snowfall totals.

Snow falls on Chartres St., French Quarter, 1/21, 25, New Orleans (Michael DeMocker/Getty)
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Scientists baffled after finding fossilized frozen forest under ice patches on Beartooth Plateau
Scientists were recently left stunned when they unveiled the remains of a 6,000-year-old forest on the Beartooth Plateau.

The forest was buried in ice and came to the surface because of warming, Earth.com stated. Researchers believe that the forest retreated under ice 5,500 years ago due to a change in solar radiation and volcanic cooling which followed the phenomenon. Findings regarding the long-buried forest have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

On examination, the fossils were identified to be the remnants of a mature white bark pine forest. As per experts, the forest was once situated at an elevation of 10,000 feet.

Researchers cited the forest as an example of how ecosystems transform due to alterations in the atmosphere. “This is pretty dramatic evidence of ecosystem change due to temperature warming.

It’s an amazing story of how dynamic these systems are,” said David McWethy, one of the study’s authors and an associate professor at Michigan State University's (MSU’s) Department of Earth Sciences. More

'Crazy to see': Parts of Gulf Coast get first-ever blizzard warning

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LAFAYETTE, Louisiana (Gulf of Mexico) − Portions of the U.S. Gulf Coast saw a first-ever blizzard warning, a wide swath of the Deep South was targeted by a major winter storm, and brutal cold temperatures gripped much of the nation today (Jan. 21, 2025) as the U.S. grappled with wild winter weather.

Stacey Denson, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, told USA TODAY the blizzard warning was a first for Louisiana. A blizzard warning means frequent wind gusts to 35 MPH and snow reducing visibilities to 1/4 mile or less is expected.

"It was pretty crazy to see," Denson said. "It is actually improving a bit, but we had whiteout conditions." More