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Discover Planet Ice: Mysteries of the Ice Ages. We are still living in an ice age, but the planet is changing. Visitors will meet animals adapted for cold, explore lands lost long ago under the world’s oceans, and much more! Lexine Menard © Canadian Museum of Nature.
At least 7 ice ages have been recognized. It may be hard to imagine, but about 20,000 years ago Canada was at the peak of its last glaciations and 97% of Canada was entirely covered by ice! The animals which lived on the planet at this time had to adjust so many of them had thick coats of fur.
Ice Age Animals. Ice age Beringia was home to a diverse, and yet unique, mix of strange and familiar animals. During the cold glacial times, icons like the woolly mammoth, steppe bison and scimitar cat roamed the treeless plains alongside caribou, muskox and grizzly bears.
Explore 80,000 years of Ice Ages with the Planet Ice Augmented Reality app. See and play with virtual Ice Age animals in the world around you – Woolly Mammoth, Smilodon (sabre-toothed cat), Caribou, Muskox, Wolf, and Short-faced bear.
In 1890 the most important site of Ice Age animals in Switzerland was discovered in Niederweningen: 100 bones, molar teeth and tusks of at least 7 different individuals of mammoths, including a very young calf, were found in a peat horizon at the base of a gravel pit. 2003 mammoth find in Niederwenigen, display at the museum
Large and impressive animals such as mammoth and bison, as well as swift and dangerous animals like lions, play a special role in this art. One of the most impressive pieces of the southwest German Aurignacian is the Water Bird from the Hohle Fels.
Location. Floor 1. Miniature models of mammoths and other ice-age mammals are depicted in two small dioramas at the entrance to the Hall of North American Mammals. One of the remarkable things about ice-age North America was the number of large predators and scavengers.
