ICE AGE TEXAS' [UTD GSS PRODUCT]

Summary: During the Pleistocene Ice Age in North America (about 2.6 million to 12 thousand years ago), large mammals such as horses, camels, giant sloths, saber- toothed cats, and Columbian mammoths migrated seasonally N-S along the route where Interstate 35 is today. This video tells about what the region looked like, why these animals migrated, and how a flash flood 64,000 years ago trapped a nursery herd of 16 Columbian mammoths and entombed them in river sediments. In 1978 these mammoth skeletons where unearthed by two young men exploring for arrowheads around the Bosque River near Waco Texas. Their discovery led to the establishment of Waco Mammoth National Monument in 2015. This video was made to help celebrate the 100th birthday of the American Geophysical Union, an international nonprofit scientific association with 60,000 members.

Tag Word: Columbian Mammoth, Ice Age, Laurentide Ice Sheet, Pleistocene, Waco Mammoth National Monument, Perot Museum of Nature and Science, American Geophysical Union