#proboscid

350000 years ago, just beyond the western edge of the icy Schwarzwald, spring has come to the mammoth steppe. A raven flies over a group of steppe mammoths enjoying a cold bath in the Oos river, while a Megaloceros grazes on some choice plants growing on the riverbanks. With the harsh ice age winter in retreat for a few months, a flock of greylag geese migrates north, a buzzard hunts, and a small pack of wolves observe a herd of steppe bison and some roe deer.

An african elephant in the flesh, next to an asian elephant's skeleton. It really shows off how enormous african elephants are.

Deinotherium. Their tusks always give them very strange-old-man vibes to me. It feels like the kind of beard a 70 year old biker would have.

Gomphotherium, two dwarf elephants, and a mammoth.

Deinotherium!

Mammoth diorama and a mammoth skeleton.

The mammoth outside the Paris natural history museum. There's a very outdated Stegosaurus I didn't get a pic of too!

Gomphotherium.