Written by Sarah Clowes on 08 May 2013
The Big Chill!
Red Rock – Lions and camels in North America? They lived during a remarkable time in Earth’s history – the last ice age – which is the subject of the 2,500 sq. ft. national travelling exhibition Ice Age Mammals débuting in Red Rock’s new Marina Building on Saturday May 11, 2013.
The exhibition shows the dramatic effects of environmental change over time, from four million to roughly 10,000 years ago. The High Arctic four million years ago was much warmer than today, with a boreal forest ecosystem similar to modern-day Labrador. It was inhabited by bears, three-toed horses, tiny primitive deer (deerlets) and small beavers called Dipoides. Visitors then cross more than two million years into another section of the exhibition – the ice age – when glaciers covered most of North America and mammoths, mastodons, and other great beasts roamed grassy plains in the Yukon and other areas.
Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) paleontologists Dr. Richard (Dick) Harington and Dr. Natalia Rybczynski were the scientific advisors to this exhibition. Dr. Harington has collected and identified some 40,000 fossils during his 33-year career with the CMN. Dr. Rybczynski has worked with him in the Arctic when she was undertaking her Master’s and Doctoral degrees. Their fieldwork stories, told through video in this exhibition, brings alive the challenges of Arctic fieldwork as well as the excitement of uncovering long-extinct species.
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