On Wednesday afternoon, my Mammalogy lab section took a trip to Beneski Museum of Natural History at Amherst College. I had never been there before so it was exciting. On the main floor, there were huge skeletons of Ice Age era mammals. There was an irish elk, mastadon, sabertooth cats, dire wolf, cave bear, and a mammoth. They also had cases with skin and hair samples that had been preserved for thousands of years. We learned that many of the fossils there were found by Amherst College expeditions in the 1800s and 1900s. We had a worksheet to do while there looking at the exhibits. For the fossils we had to identify the scientific name (Genus and species) and make conclusions on diet and locomotion based on tooth shape and the proportion of limbs.
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