[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How in the most recent age, Pangaea broke apart and made modern plate tectonics.

A short but very interesting description of the Woolly Mammoth; its habitat and habits are described.

In English and Spanish this site deals with animal life in Illinois past and present. With sections on dinosaurs, animals in Illinois 65 million years ago, animals in Illinois 10 million years ago, and animals in Illinois today, this is...

This resource provides a brief explanation of Beringia, the geographical region surrounding the Bering Strait.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the life of Cro-Magnon people. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Uncover discoveries from the past by learning about the prehistoric helmeted muskox. Includes information about the time period, physical characteristics, fossil specimens, feeding habits, and habitat.

The Canadian Museum of Nature unravels the characteristics of the Short-Faced Bear-a large and powerful North American land carnivore.

This site looks into the possibility that Bowheads ranged as far south as the Ottawa Valley as fossils were found in White Lake Ontario where the Champlain Sea once was.

Through an overview of past archeological expeditions, the author recounts the "Land Bridge" theory and delves into the life of the first inhabitants of North America.

Uncover discoveries from the past by learning about the prehistoric steppe bison. Includes information about the time period, physical characteristics, fossil specimens, feeding habits, and habitat.

Lions were among the largest predators during the ice age. Get other interesting facts about this ancestor of the American Lion.

A map from 1911 showing the glacial lake succession of the Ontarian Ice Lobe in New York state, Lake Iroquois.

A map from 1911 of the glacial remnants in northern Illinois, showing areas of moraine deposits, driftless areas to the east, Illinoian drift, lowland drift, till sheets, and the proglacial Lake Chicago outlet.

Lots of information here about glaciation, types of glaciers, the formation of glacial ice, changes in glacier size, how glaciers move, glacial erosion, landforms produced by glaciers, glacial deposition and drift, effects of glaciation...

Students discover how tree age can be determined by studying the rings, and how ring thickness can be used to deduce times of optimal growing conditions. Then they investigate simulated tree rings applying the scientific method to...

This nonfiction children's book was created by 1st grade students at the Genesee Valley Community Charter School in Rochester, New York, as part of a learning expedition on fossils and local geological history. The expedition consisted...

This is the website for The Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, South Dakota. The Mammoth Site boasts the largest concentration of mammoths in the world. You can tour this indoor active dig site and view Ice Age fossils. The site offers a video...

During the last ice age the water level in the oceans fell by more than 120 metres. The drop in water levels exposed the floor of the Bering Straight. Over time, people from Asia migrated across this "land bridge" to North America. As...

The Appleton Public Library presents a significant collection of material on the novelist Edna Ferber (Giant, Show Boat, Ice Palace, and so on). Ferber grew up in Appleton, WI. Features include a biography, photographs, a listing of...

Map of Europe, showing the great sheet of ice that covered the British Isles, Scandinavia, Germany, and half of Russia during the second Glacial Age.