Mammal Fossils Tour

Saber-toothed cats were an almost worldwide occurring group of cats in earlier geological history, which produced a great diversity of species and became extinct at the end of the ice age.

The giant deer got its name from the male’s antlers, which could have a span of up to 3.60 m, a record among all known antlers, be that fossil or present-day.

Cave bears were bears of the European Ice Age, whose bones are found mainly in caves, where they would retreat for hibernation.

The scene depicts a marshy oxbow lake in the freshwater wetland of the former foreland basin north of the Alps with evergreen to deciduous subtropical forests, reed belts, and open floodplains.

The extinct woolly mammoths were the only proboscideans adapted to cold habitats and typical inhabitants of the ice-age mammoth steppes of Eurasia and North America.

Like today’s elephants, Gomphotheria also had a horizontal tooth change.

The Gomphotheria or teat-toothed elephants are extinct representatives of the proboscideans with two upper and two lower tusks that share common ancestors with the Pleistocene woolly mammoth and our modern elephants.