In the past, mammoths and mastodons ... Most commonly, mastodons ranged along the Atlantic coast and south of the Great Lakes. Their preferred habitat was open spruce woodland and forest. “The word ...

many Europeans believed that the bones of mammoths and mastodons belonged to giants drowned by Noah’s flood. Mammoths discovered preserved in the Siberian permafrost were believed to be ...

During the Pleistocene era, which is often referred to as the Ice Age, a giant beaver that was the size of a bear roamed the ...

Before the Holocene, the last glacial period lasted about 110,000 years.It is often referred to as "the last ice age" and is best known for hosting now-extinct megafauna, such as woolly mammoths ...