Animals of Ice Age

Whoolly mammoth, wooly rhinoceroses, bears and buffalo roamed over the ice age tundra. These large creatures were well adapted for life at low temperatures, but they proved less adaptable than smaller mammoth mammals once the ice retreated.

Picture of Whooly Mammoths.

Part of the skull and the spectacular tusk of an adult wolly mammoth that roamed the tundra of England during the las ice age. This one wasfound in what is now part of the surburbs of London, England.

Picture of Mammoth's skull.

The skeleton of similodon, a sabre tooth tiger. This powerful cat had a large head, muscular shoulders and a short tail. it was a ferocious killer, using its huge, serrated canine teeth to slash into the flesh of its prey-mostly large mammals such as mammoth and bison.

Picture of Sabertootcat's Skeleton.