Today, there is a group of larger visitors here, too. A herd of mastodons led by the matriarch have just returned from their annual migration hundreds...
This triggered other dramatic changes. As sea levels dropped, so did the inland water tables. Florida's fresh water drained away through the porous li...
Could it be that drastic water shortage was the reason for the mastodons' epic migrations? Another big piece of this puzzle lies far out to sea. This ...
Some of this ice age dung was found beneath the skull in the Aucilla. The dung contained plant remains that tell us what the mastodon was browsing on ...
But despite their name, the mighty Everglades did not exist during the ice age. So what did pre-historic Florida look like? There is one place in nort...
They can grow more than two metres long and weigh as much as three men. But the giant tortoises of ice age North America were even larger. Florida doe...
It's likely giant ground sloths used their claws in a similiar way to hook branches and pull them within reach. Like tree sloths, they were vegetarian...
This is the Virginia opossum, a tree dweller found throughout many of the southern states. It's the only North American marsupial. The young are born ...
The cold climate conifer forests of the north displaced broadleaved woodlands. Plants and animals were gradually pushed south to find a warmer climate...
