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53 N. Macdonald
Mesa, AZ 85201
(One block north of Main Street in downtown Mesa.
Take US 60 or 202 to Country Club Drive, go to Main
Street, and proceed one-half mile east to
Macdonald) -
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Paradise Lost: Arizona South
of the Ice
Great ice sheets cover much of the
continent. Huge, strange animals roam the cold,
windswept plains. You have entered North
America—this is the Ice Age!
But not in Arizona….
"Paradise Lost" Arizona Museum of Natural History’s newest exhibition, explores the lost world
of Arizona's last three million years. Find out what
it was like to live south of the ice during the
Pliocene and Pleistocene Epochs. During these
geologic time periods, Arizona was paradise - a
place so ideal that rich mixtures of the world’s
animal species were represented - including hyenas,
flamingos, and capybaras. Now extinct animals
include huge mammoths, fierce bone crushing dogs,
and giant ground sloths. This exhibition will
feature full skeletons of mammoth, American zebra
and the American lion.
“Paradise Lost” showcases the museum’s
collections and research into the Pliocene and Pleistocene
Epochs in Arizona, especially the Safford area. Although not
the complete skeletons, fossils from the Chandler, Willcox,
and celebrated Gilbert mammoths will be on display. Human
evolution and activities are explored both before and after
their arrival in the region. This important local story has
never been told in such detail and we are excited and proud
to bring Arizona South of the Ice to you.
Columbian Mammoth (Mammathus columbi)
Artwork by Carl Buell
www.olduvaigeorge.com
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