What We Lost During the Younger Dryas Catastrophe

Around 12,800 years ago, just as the Ice Age was ending, Earth changed suddenly.

Temperatures collapsed.
Ice returned.
Floods erased coastlines.

This event is known as the Younger Dryas Catastrophe — a sudden global climate reversal that may have wiped out entire human cultures and Ice Age megafauna.

In this documentary, we explore what was lost during the Younger Dryas:

Human groups living before recorded history

Coastal settlements now buried underwater

Woolly mammoths, saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, and other giants

Ecosystems that never recovered

Knowledge that may have been erased forever

Some scientists believe this catastrophe was triggered by a cosmic impact.
Others argue it was a sudden shift in ocean circulation.
What’s certain is that the world before the Younger Dryas did not survive it.

What we call myths today — great floods, lost worlds, golden ages — may be memories of this forgotten disaster.

This is not a story about the beginning of civilization.
It’s a story about what came before — and was lost.
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