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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.
The Milstein Hall of Advanced Mammals features extinct mammal relatives such as mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed cats, camels, and giant ground sloths, which roamed North America until about 10,000 years ago. These species became extinct, possibly due to climate changes at the end of the last ice age, hunting by humans, and infectious disease.
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.
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.
9 de abr. de 2022 · The Charleston Museum is making a new section in their Natural History Galley that will include many fossils from the Pleistocene / Ice Age period. In the museum, one can see and learn about the animals of the period including mammoths, mastodon, and saber-tooth cats. Admission: $12.00 Per Adult. Monday-Saturday: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
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
Museum research. Explore how our research into Ice Age animal extinctions can help us understand the vulnerability of species today. Were woolly mammoths a victim of hunting by humans or did their extinction have more to do with an apparent fondness for buttercups?
