The Mammoth Steppe

Clues to the Lost Land The Mammoth Steppe was a unique and fragile ecosystem of the Pleistocene Era. The many plants and animals that thrived in this ecosystem, supported by the cool, arid climate, balanced the land for more than 1.5 million years. With the help of bison fossils, scientists have been able to fit the pieces of this mysterious puzzle together to understand how this unique, yet fragile ecosystem worked and how everything coexisted in …

…how the different intricate parts of the steppe's ecosystem functioned, but also how it collapsed in retrospect. And in researching the Bison of the Mammoth Steppe and its fossils, and the close relationship on the ecosystem, I have discovered for myself, first hand, how digging up fossils of the past tells you more than just secrets of the fossils you found, it can tell and give you the secrets to a whole period of time.