The last ice age wasn’t totally icy

From Mexico City, at the 60th annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

Radiocarbon dating of fossils taken from caves on islands along southeastern Alaska’s coast suggest that at least a portion of the area remained icefree during the last ice age.

Some of the caves, including those on Prince of Wales Island, were natural traps into which the animals fell and couldn’t escape, says Timothy H.