Ice Age Research

Mahaska County Mammoths

 

Multiple mammoth site containing at least one Woolly Mammoth. Discovered in Mahaska County, IA in 2010.

 

Troublesome Creek Giant Short-faced Bear

 

Iowa's first confirmed Giant Short-faced bear discovery. Found in Cass County, Iowa  in 2008.

 

 

A group of three Giant Ground Sloths; one adult, one adolsecent and one juvenile, discovered in Shenandoah, Iowa in 2001.

 

Research Collections
1890-1895 Kallam Collection 700 stone tools from Tama County, Iowa
1892 Talbot Bird Collection 7,000 bird skins & ornithological library
1892-1895 Frank Russell Collection ethnographic materials, birds and mammals (see list)
1904

Philippine Collection,

St. Louis World's Fair Exhibit

 ethnographic materials (see list)
1930 Jones Bird Collection 600 mounted birds and 8,000 eggs
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