OLLI Talks: Chilling Out with the Ice Age Mammals of Colorado (Drake Hall)
OSHR 3109Are you interested in big game? How about mammoths on the Great Plains, mastodons in the Rocky Mountains, and giant ground sloths in your backyard? These are but a few of the animals that lived in Colorado during the Pleistocene, popularly known as the Ice Age. Join new OLLI instructor and paleontologist Greg McDonald to learn about these and many other unusual former inhabitants of Colorado, where they came from, and why they are no longer present in Colorado (and elsewhere).
Dr. Greg McDonald is a retired regional paleontologist for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Before transferring to the BLM, he worked for the National Park Service as the Senior Curator of Natural History in the Washington Museum Management Program, as Paleontology Program Coordinator in the Geologic Resources Division, and as the paleontologist at Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument. Before working for the government, Greg was Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History and collections manager for vertebrate paleontology at the Idaho Museum of Natural History. He earned his doctorate at the University of Toronto, a master's degree at the University of Florida, and a Bachelor's degree at Idaho State University. His research focuses on the extinct giant ground sloths and their relatives and Plio-Pleistocene mammals of North and South America. He is a co-editor of Smilodon: The Iconic Sabertooth and a co-author of The White River Badlands – Geology and Paleontology.
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Optional Reading:
Before the Indians by Björn Kurtén 1996 published by Columbia University Press