Here is a selection of images of the remains of remarkable animals long extinct, from the American Museum of Natural History. This is another place that takes more than a day to peruse.

Glyptotherium texanum, 2.5 million years ago, North America, this one probably killed by a large jaguar-sized pussycat, leaving two puncture marks on the top of the skull

Mammut americanum (mastadon) 11 thousand years ago. This specimen was found intact, standing upright, inside a peat bog






