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Pleistocene mammals on display in the ISM Changes exhibit, Springfield
Late Pleistocene Mammals
White spruce
Late Pleistocene Plants
Anchorage glacier
Paleoclimates: Past Ice Ages
Mastodon Lake, artist's reconstruction
Late Pleistocene Biomes

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Bison in Midwestern Tallgrass Prairie, Illinois State Museum.
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Backyard Paleo - an external blog

This button will take you to the Backyard Paleo blog by ISM Paleontologist, Chris Widga. The blog is housed on Wordpress.com; use the "back button" to return to this site, or control-click to open the blog in a new window. You can also find links to specific entries on that blog in the box to the right. 

BackyardPaleo Blog Posts

  • History, Salt, and MASTODONS!!!
  • How Many Mammoths?
  • The Elephant in the corner of the room (and other thoughts on dating the Pleistocene extinctions)
  • Excuses, excuses, excuses…
  • Natural History Collections for future Ecosystems
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This material is based in part on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1050638. 

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. The Mammoths and Mastodont Project Team gratefully acknowledges their support.
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