Winter weather brings images of the Ice Age, so it’s probably a good moment for the Ontario Science Center in Toronto to be opening its new exhibit on the giant mammals that roamed Ontario during the last Ice Age. The exhibit opened yesterday, and will run thorugh April 24.
Recent advances in DNA technology have changed some of what we know about the lives, and the extinction, of these animals. The museum’s “knowledge partner” for the exhibit is McMaster University, and its Ancient DNA Centre.
Included in the exhibit is a replica of a well-preserved baby mammoth, perhaps 42,000 years old, found frozen in ice in Siberia in 2007, as well as some of the earliest artwork by humans, using huge tusks and skulls.
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