After mastodons and mammoths, a transformed landscape
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 15:07
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(PhysOrg.com) -- Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North America's vast assemblage of large animals -- including such iconic creatures as mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, ground sloths and giant beavers -- began their precipitous slide to extinction.