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The last Ice Age started about 70,000 years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago (during the Pleistocene epoch). The Earth was much colder than it is now. The sea levels were lower than they are now since much of the water was frozen. Snow covered much of the land and glaciers and ice sheets extended over large areas. These phenomenon changed the landscape of the earth, forming lakes, changing the paths of rivers, eroding land, and depositing sand, gravel, and rocks along the glaciers' paths.

During the last Ice Age, there were many large, interesting mammals, like the saber-toothed cats, giant ground sloths, mastodons, and mammoths. These animals have long since gone extinct and are known mostly from fossils, from frozen, mummified carcasses, and even from ancient cave drawings.

Colodonta The Woolly Rhino is an extinct rhinoceros from the Ice Ages. Jan. 9, 2000

Doedicurus Doedicurus (family Glyptodontidae) was an ancient armadillo with a tail mace. It lived during the Ice Ages.

Giant Ground Sloth A huge, extinct herbivore from the Ice Age - also called Megatherium.

Glyptodon Glyptodon was a car-sized armadillo that lived during the Ice Ages.

Mammoth Mammoths were extinct elephant-like herbivores that lived during the last Ice Ages.

Mastodon Mastodons were shaggy, tusked herbivores.

Megatherium An extinct giant ground sloth from the Ice Age.

Smilodon, a Saber-toothed Cat Smilodon was a saber-toothed cat, a fierce predator from the ice ages. They are extinct.

Woolly Rhinoceros The Woolly Rhino is an extinct rhinoceros from the Ice Ages.

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