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.
Ice Ages. Our current climate regime -â a regime weâve had for the past ~2 million years â- is characterized by long periods of ice ages and shorter warm periods. The last ice age ended about 12,000 years ago, and since then weâve been in a warm period. Some argue that global warming is no concern, since the Earth will naturally switch back to an ice age. This is very likely to be true: an ice age is almost certainly in our planetâs future. But itâs a question of when. Our current concerns about climate change focus on the coming decades to the next century â- the time period relevant to our childrenâs and grandchildrenâs experience.