Wicked Witch
A large, armored, extinct relative of the armadillo that lived in South America during the Ice Age.
Glyptodont
An extinct carnivorous marsupial from Australia, known for its powerful build and retractable claws.
Marsupial Lion
An extinct, elephant-like mammal with long tusks and a furry body; lived in North and Central America.
Mastodon
A person of group with no permanent home, moving seasonally in search of food or grazing land.
Nomad
Permanent body markings made by inserting pigment in the skin; Ötzi had over 60, possibly for therapeutic or symbolic purposes.
Tattoos
A major European mountain range stretching across eight countries, including Austria and Italy; site of Ötzi's discovery.
The Alps
A mass extinction event around 10,000 years ago that wiped out many large Ice Age animals.
Pleistocene Extinction
A theory suggesting that human hunting contributed significantly to the extinction of megafauna.
Overkill
Large animals, often extinct, that lived during the Pleistocene epoch, such as mammoths and giant sloths.
Megafauna
In the film, the horses in Emerald City were dyed with this--which the horses kept trying to lick off.
Jell-O!!
In L. Frank Baum's book, what color were Dorothy's slippers in the Land of Oz?
Silver!!
The period during the last Ice Age when global ice sheets were at their greatest extent (about 21,000 years ago).
Last glacial maximum
A naturally mummified man from the Copper Age (c. 3300 BCE), discovered in the Ötztal Alps in 1991; also known as Iceman.
Ötzi
A type of natural mummy preserved in cold, moist conditions, retaining soft tissues due to environmental factors.
Wet mummy
A genus of giant ground sloths from South America, among the largest land mammals ever to exist.
Megatherium