PREHISTORIC BEASTS EXHIBIT

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In early 1994, during the installation of drain tile patterns in a Wisconsin cornfield, workers ran into what has become one of North America’s most important Ice Age discoveries - a nearly complete skeleton of a woolly mammoth, named the Hebior Mammoth.

AUTHENTIC

This authentic complete skeleton of Coelodonta antiquitatis is the only authentic traveling specimen in the world.  He sports an impressive 42" nose horn and is about 100,000 years old.

The Rancho La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles have yielded excellent specimens of this great ground sloth.  This sloth is a direct casting from one of the finest specimens ever found.

The Smilodon was the classic saber tooth cat.  Groups of these powerful cats attacked and killed both the giant sloth and mammoth with their huge pair of saber teeth.  Museum guests are always shocked over the large size of this beautiful skeleton cast.

This impressive specimen will wow your guests!  The authentic Russian cave bear skeleton stands over 8' tall and is all authentic bone.

CAST

This adult skeleton of the smallest mammoth to ever evolve was found in Sicily and is about 500,000 year old.  During the Ice Age, sea levels were low enough to connect some islands around the world to their adjacent mainlands via land bridges.  Toward the end of the Ice Ages, sea levels rose again, leaving some species of animals, such as this one, stranded on small islands.

Fleshed-out sculpture

During the Eocene, the grasslands of N. America were inhabited by this flightless bird over 7' tall.  It had massive limbs with three toes, a great skull measuring 18" and a powerful hooked beak.  This terror bird represented a great danger to small mammals.  (IMAGE FROM LINDSAY WILDLIFE MUSEUM, CALIFORNIA).

Uintatherium was one of the many bizarre mammals roaming North America during the late Eocene epoch. This bulky, hoofed animal was larger than the modern rhinoceros and sported three pairs of short, knobby horns which grew upward from its nasal bones. In addition, a pair of dagger-like canine tusks jutted downward from its upper jaw. Like the wooly rhino, the uintatherium was a plant-eater. It mainly lived in forests where it could find leaves and soft plants to eat. The uintatheres have no living descendants.

Synthetoceras belonged to the family of Protoceratids, "first horns", which resembled deer but were more closely related to camels. Synthetoceras was the latest and the largest of the Protoceratids. Its flamboyant horn arrangement was only present in the males.