“Well, why not call it The Big Chill? Or the Nippy Era? I’m just saying, how do we know it’s an Ice Age?” “Because of all the ice!” That’s the interaction between two Macrauchenia that kicks off Ice Age , everybody’s favorite squirrel-led foray into the Pleistocene . It touches on an interesting point, really, because although the Ice Age is famous for its ice, Earth still had vast forests, grasslands, and deserts – landscapes you can see in action in Apple TV's upcoming Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age . The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

“The ice is only in the extreme north and the extreme south,” scientific advisor on the series, palaeontologist Dr Darren Naish , told IFLScience. “There are tropical and subtropi

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