After mastodons and mammoths, a transformed landscape

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 22:28 in Paleontology & Archaeology

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.

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