Flying mouse. The flying mice, also known as the pygmy scaly-tails, pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrels, or pygmy anomalures are not mice, not squirrels, and are not capable of true flight. These unusual rodents are essentially miniaturized versions of anomalures and are part of the same sub-Saharan African radiation of gliding mammal. Contents.
Report Abuse. An Ice Age (and there was more than one) affects the climate of the entire Earth. Ice doesn't cover the entire Earth during an Ice Age, but where it doesn't, the climate is cooler than in a non-ice-age period. There have also been times in Earth's history when the entire planet was covered in ice.These periods are known as Snowball Earth periods.ce doesn't cover the entire Earth during an Ice Age, but where it doesn't, the climate is cooler than in a non-ice-age period. There have also been times in Earth's history when the entire planet was covered in ice.
âThe earth has gradually been warming since the little ice age, again with a few peaks and dips in temperature.â âIf it were to slow significantly or stop (which appears to have happened in the past), Europe could very quickly plummet into a little ice age.â