Colorado in the Ice Age - Fossils Discovered

Jefferson ground sloth skeleton. (Wikipedia)

Colorado (left) in the United States, is a place of beautiful mountains and waterways. It seems to be so pristine these days with familiar animals and plants. But what was it like thousands of years ago in the Ice Age? Little by little, palaeontologists are piecing together the environment of Colorado when the land was largely covered by ice.

In a recent excavation of an Ice Age ecosystem at Snowmass Village, researchers have found the upper arm of a Jefferson's ground sloth (Megalonyx jeffersonii). Project scientist Greg McDonald said it was the first time such a sloth was found since other remains found in the past were of Harlan's ground sloth. The find is another piece in a puzzle which reveals what life was like in the region when, apart from ground sloths, the land was home to the Ice Age bison, Columbian mammoth, Ice Age deer, and American mastodon.

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Huge Cache of Fossils from the Ice Age Discovered in La Brea

A huge cache of Ice Age fossils near the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles promises paleaontologists years of great finds to come. Apparently, it's where a lot of Pleistocene creatures like the wooly mammoth and saber-toothed cat have met their death in ice-age LA. With the outing of the third of the computer-animated movie series, Ice Age, it's expected that the new fossil site and the Tar Pits museum will draw plenty of kid visitors with parents in tow.

The most famous ice age is the last one to have peaked on the Earth and it happened only around 20,000 years ago. Many remains of animals from the Ice Age or Pleistocene Age have been found and some of them were recovered frozen and intact for thousands of years. Remains of wooly mammoths, including that of a baby have been studied by science, and some were also reputedly eaten as well.

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Giant Herbivorous Dinosaur Fossil Recovered in Argentina

One of the largest ever of all dinosaurs known to have existed had been found in Argentina. The remains were found among fossil leaves and other petrified vegetation debris. Researcher Alexander Kellner of the Rio de Janeiro National Museum says, "The accumulation of fish and leaf fossils, as well as other dinosaurs around the find, is just something fantastic. Leaves and dinosaurs together is a great rarity."

Click here for an artist's rendition of Argentina 80 million years ago.

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