Huntington's Woolly Mammoth and Friends
 
The Huntington Mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) was found on August 8, 1988 by a bulldozer operator working on the Huntington Reservoir Dam on the Wasatch Plateau in central Utah. He uncovered a front leg bone (the humerus) and a section of the tusk. The Huntington Reservoir is especially notable for its excavation of the 27-foot mammoth skeleton was about 90% complete. The Mammoth lived about 10,500 years ago, very close to the time of the mammoth's extinction. The mammoth was a very old individual, as indicated by tooth wear and arthritis in its bones. Mounted cast skeletons of the Mammoth can be seen at the Utah Museum of Natural History in Salt Lake City and the College of Eastern Utah (CEU) Prehistoric Museum in Price.

Short-Faced Bear found at the site is around 400 years younger than the mammoth, this bear was one of the last of the Pleistocene mega-fauna in North America. This bear stood over five feet tall at the shoulder, making it larger than the modern grizzly, brown, and polar bears of North America. When standing upright, the short-faced bear was over 11 feet tall and could weigh as much as 1,800 pounds.

    

Saber Toothed Cat aka Saber-toothed tiger. A fully-grown Saber-Toothed Tiger weighed approximately 450 pounds, a short tail, powerful legs and a large head. About the size of a present day lion, Smilodon was extremely powerful. Its jaws could open 120 degrees. Its fangs were about 7 inches long. The saber toothed cat, mistakenly called a "saber-toothed tiger," is actually scientifically classified in a separate group from true cats. ~

Ice Age Camel: The western camel had a very similar build to the living two-humped camel, but was slightly taller (standing seven feet at the shoulder) and may have lacked humps. Although its teeth suggest a diet of grasses, plant remains extracted from its teeth show very little grass and would suggest that the camel ate any plants that were around.  

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Giant Ground Sloth (Megatherium) inhabited South America and southern North America during the Ice Age. It had huge claws on its feet, the claws made the Sloth walk on the sides of its feet. Its footprints show that it walked mainly on its hind legs. When it stood on its hind legs, it was about twice the height of an elephant, or about twenty feet tall. Although it was slow moving, it's size, dense shaggy fur, and thick hide studded with hard calcium deposit would have provided a good deal of protection. wiki