ice age

This image provided by the Max Planck Institute shows a male skull with stone tools from Gross Fredenwalde, Germany, dated to about 7,000 years ago. This individual's population lived side-by-side with the first European farmers without mixing. Research published Wednesday, March 1, 2023, in the journal Nature reveals that the hunter-gatherer people who dominated Europe 30,000 years ago sought refuge from the last Ice Age in warmer places, but only those who sheltered in what is now Spain and Portugal appear to have survived. (Volker Minkus/Brandenburgisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege/Max Planck Institute via AP)
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The 18,000-year-old ice age animal is perfectly preserved. (Twitter/Centre for Palaeogenetics)
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