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Sandwiched between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula, the Gulf is geologically young; the shallowest areas have been under water for only around 6,000 years and the body of water overall is only a result of glaciers melting at the end of the last ice age.—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 14 May 2026 Bison—survivors of ice ages and near extinction, to later become our national animal—wander freely at the whims of the matriarch cow bison that lead the cow-calf groups.—Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 14 May 2026 And later, when water levels dropped, tectonics shifted, reefs grew, and the ice age locked away the planet’s water supplies into glaciers, and new faults thrust the land skyward to dry?—Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026 Around 20,000 years ago, the region was covered by massive sheets of ice during the last ice age.—Rachelle Graham, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ice age