"Wooly mammoth and giant bisons". Mammoth and other creatures were preserved in ice which formed when the waters of Noah's flood evaporated. Evaporation causes cooling.
Wooly Mammoth and Giant Bisons
Advances and Retreats of Continental Ice Sheets
"Several advances and retreats of continental ice sheets, accompanied by some elevation of continents and draining of major synclines." There used to be an ice age 10,000 years ago, but THE NARRATIVE became murky and confusing.
Which Ice Age?
When we say "ice age" we usually mean the one that ended about 10,000 years ago. In the popular science narrative (SciPop) this was the last of several retreats and advances of polar ice over the last 10,000-40,000 years.
August 27th
The Pleistocene is directly before what the geological timescale calls "present day." It includes the ice age, or sequence of ice ages, depending on how contrived you make the narrative.