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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.
Updated. 20/06/23. Megafauna are large animals that roamed the Earth during the Pleistocene, 2.5 million to 11,700 years ago. In Australia, megafauna included the huge wombat-shaped Diprotodon and giant goanna Megalania. European megafauna included Woolly Rhinoceroses, Mammoths, Cave Lions and Cave Bears.
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.
1 of 7. While You're Visiting: Discover the large animals like mammoths, saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, giant sloths, and more that roamed Ice Age L.A. See what scientists are working on in the Fossil Lab, from sorting microfossils to cleaning mammoth tusks.
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.
The goal the Neanderthal Animal Park has set itself is the keeping of rare Ice Age animals in an ethical, species-appropriate manner. The park has pursued this goal since its founding, in 1935, by the Neandertal Nature Conservation Society.
