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Prehistoric Zoo: Who ruled the planet after the dinosaurs For starters, how about a killer bird as tall as you and a rhino/pig-thing the size of your house. Meet these — and other — fantastic beasts who rose from the asteroid's ashes. Beast Gallery: Get a low-tech look at 18 marvelously bizarre post-dinosaur creatures. Real Beasts of the Ice Age has already aired, but you can check it ...
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The cross-section of a mammoth tusk. Ross MacPhee What Killed the Mammoths According to Ross MacPhee, Chairman of the Department of Mammalogy of the American Museum of Natural History, mammoths should still be around. If you gave 'em a shave, they're very much like a modern elephant, MacPhee points out. These guys are incredibly buffered against extinction. Yet die out they did, as part of a ...
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The Midwestern U.S. 16, 000 Years Ago Search ISM Home ...
www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/larson/mammut.html
Sabretooths! With their enormous, deadly sharp canines, sabre-toothed carnivores are well known to many people as frightening and ferocious predators of the Cenozoic. What may come as a surprise to some is the fact that there's more than one sabretooth cat. The sabretooth morphology has appeared several times during the history of the mammals. Sabre-toothed members of the Carnivora, the ...
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/carnivora/sabretooth.html
Of Mastodons, Mammoths and Other Giants of the Pleistocene Bones of a Mastodon. During the Pleistocene Epoch, from about 1.5 million to 10, 000 years ago, the world grew cold. Great sheets of ice, sometimes a thousand feet thick, moved down from the north gouging out the land. These harsh conditions seemed to encourage the development of giant mammals (Probably because larger animals are better ...
unmuseum.mus.pa.us/mastodon.htm
The last Ice Age peaked about 20, 000 years ago, after which the Earth again began to warm. Fossil evidence shows that by about 15, 000 years ago, Ice Age people were roaming the plains and forests in North America, hunting enormous mammals with stone-pointed spears. Most of those animals were extinct by about 10, 000 years ago. Did changes in climate or over-hunting by man cause the demise of Ice ...
www.mnh.si.edu/museum/VirtualTour/Tour/First/IceAge/index.html
The Midwestern U.S. 16, 000 Years Ago Search ISM Home ...
www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/larson/smilodon.html
The Midwestern U.S. 16, 000 Years Ago Search ISM Home ...
www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/larson/sloth.html
Bones of a giant ground sloth from the ice age. Giant Sloth The giant ground sloth was one of the enormous creatures that thrived during the ice ages. Looking a little bit like an oversized hamster it probably fed on leaves found on the lower branches of trees or bushes. The largest of these ground sloths was Megatherium which grew to the size of a modern elephant. Like other giant creatures ...
unmuseum.mus.pa.us/sloth.htm
A field research programme to discover if Thylacoleo carnifex, the Marsupial Lion, and the Thylacine, Thylacinus cynocephalus, may still be alive. Thylacoleo carnifex, an Australian marsupial predator from Pleistocene times.
Pleistocene Extinctions: The Death of an Ecosystem Elin Whitney-Smith, Ph.D. We tend to think extinctions only affect the animals which are gone. We forget that animals, vegetation and climate are linked. We also tend to forget that people act on their perceptions of their environment. If their environment changes slowly, they slowly adjust, and their perception of their environment does not ...
www.well.com/user/elin/extinct.htm
CALVIN COLLEGE MASTODON PAGE ABOUT THE CALVIN COLLEGE DIG MASTODON REFERENCES LINKS Since 8/4/99 Last updated: 7/27/2001 by Paul Petersen Back to Calvin Geology Page Welcome to the Calvin College mastodon homepage. Featured here are details about our 1999 excavation at the Ada Bible Church site, as well as general mastodon information and links to other mastodon sites. ...
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Adaptation...Mammoths To Man Packet A INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE WOOLLY MAMMOTH The Age of Mammals Small mammals were alive when dinosaurs roamed the earth. No one is quite certain why dinosaurs died out. Some scientists think it could have been a change in the climate. Others have said that there might have been a major disaster, like a comet crashing into the earth. With these large creatures ...
www.uen.org/Centennial/12AdaptationA.html
2.5MYA - 10, 000 YEARS AGO SPECIES: Smilodon gracilis, Smilodon populator, Smilodon fatalis The animals most commonly thought of in terms of the evolution of the big cats (and my personal favorite) are members of the genus Smilodon. The genus is currently divided into three species : Smilodon gracilis, Smilodon populator, and Smilodon fatalis. Large numbers of these animals have been found in the ...
www.bluelion.org/smilodon.htm
