5 giant animals that roamed the Earth during the Ice Age
Published on: Dec. 4, 2025, 7 a.m. | Source: Times of India
The Ice Age was a world locked in endless winter, where massive glaciers crept across continents and woolly mammoths roamed icy tundras. It was not just a single event, but a series of cold snaps spanning Earth’s history, with the most famous being the Pleistocene epoch, from about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago.During these frigid times, temperatures plummeted, ice sheets covered North America, Europe, and Asia, and sea levels dropped dramatically, exposing land bridges like Beringia that allowed animals to migrate.Through excavations of these sticky pits, bones and fossils of some of the world’s most fascinating Ice Age beasts have been preserved, bringing to light stories once lost to time. These discoveries hold clues about their diet, behavior, and the environmental changes that influenced their existence, enriching our understanding of prehistoric life.Here are 5 animals that lived during the Ice Age:Photos: Wikimedia Commons/ Canva
