February 2024-March 2025
During the last Ice Age (Pleistocene c.2.58 million – 11,700 years ago), life and landscape of Maryland was vastly different. It was colder. There was no Chesapeake Bay. Mammoths, sabertoothed cats, bison and great beavers roamed a land dominated by coniferous woods and marshy tundra.
The Natural History Society of Maryland was honored to be chosen to exhibit never before seen fossils of a woolly mammoth loaned to NHSM by Dr. Charles Breeze. The mammoth skeleton was the featured element of the Ice Age in Maryland Exhibit which ran from February 2024 to March 2025. While the mammoth has moved on, its legacy and role as teacher continues. 3D imagery was taken of the exhibit prior to dismantling allowing you to “walk through”. Click on various aspects of the display to learn more.
ABOUT THE MAMMOTH: ABOUT THE MAMMOTH: This mammoth was excavated in Alaska in partnership with local Native Alaskan communities using an ecologically friendly approach (fossils taken to surface via natural erosion).”