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The glacier at Tanggula Pass on the border between Qinghai and Tibet in Nagqu, Tibet, China, on August 7, 2024. The last ice age began roughly 120,000 years ago and ended about 11,500 years ago, but plenty of signs of this last period of ice domination still exist all over Earth. The Midwestern United States remains flattened by the last ice age’s towering glaciers, Many new apex predators have replaced woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers—and the ecosystem is still recovering from that switch.

Snow–Tanner hybrid crab collected during the 2026 eastern Bering Sea bottom trawl survey. Credit: Jon Richar Marine heat waves are usually seen as destructive events that can disrupt entire ocean ecosystems and trigger massive environmental damage. In 2018 and 2019, an extreme heat wave hit the Bering Sea, causing spring sea ice levels to plummet.

Insects belong to a broader group of six-legged animals called hexapods. This group also includes other less well-known, small animals, including diplurans or two-pronged bristletails, wingless relatives of insects with two rear projections called cerci that resemble feelers or pincers.