Animals of the Ice Age 494km

Mar 01, 2016

If you think you winter walk to school is cold, just imagine what it was like living in an ice age! During an ice age, sheets of ice could cover most of type of weather, but you'd be wrong. Take a look at just a few of the animals that lived through an ice age!

Saber-toothed Tiger k2o15

The Saber-toothed shrubby grasslands. It was a carnivore and may have preyed upon animals as large as mastodons!

Sabertooth Tiger

Mastodon 475u5d

The mastodon may have looked like a wooly mammoth but it was a completely separate creature. This relative of tops of trees. They also had huge tusks that could grow to be up to 16 feet (5 m) in length!

Mastodon

Woolly Mammoth 544z5y

The woolly mammoth had a Arctic Ocean, up to about 4,000 years ago.

Woolly Mammoth

Megatherium 381w3k

This elephant-sized ground sloth must have been a sight to behold! It was one of the South America but recent evidence shows it probably lived in North America as well.

Megatherium

Cave Lion 154d2

At about 25 percent bigger than Europe and Asia, from the UK all the way to the farthest reaches of Kazakhstan.

Cave Lion