Past cold periods such as the Little Ice Age were associated with reduced strength of North Atlantic currents and increased surface salinity in the Caribbean ... increase in sea ice extent ...

The new fossils “gave us an unparalleled snapshot at what the Ice Age life would have been like on a Caribbean isle ... a long time ago — before the sea levels rose, during the Pleistocene ...

While Europeans were shivering through the Little Ice Age, natives of the Caribbean were also facing a cooler climate, researchers report. Made famous by the winter scene paintings of Pieter ...