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.
Thatâs the image that comes to mind when most of us think about an ice age. But in fact there have been many ice ages, most of them long before humans made their first appearance. And the familiar picture of an ice age is of a comparatively mild one&colon; others were so severe that the entire Earth froze over, for tens or even hundreds of millions of years.