Extinct Species Archives - Ohio History Connection

Did We Really “De-extinct” the Dire Wolf?

By Erin Cashion and David Dyer On April 7, the story in Time magazine was posted everywhere: we had brought the extinct Ice Age Dire Wolf, Aenocyon dirus, back from the dead. Alongside this unbelievable headline came the video of two adorable white, fluffy canines in the hands of a human caregiver. These two pups […]

How to Find a Mastodon – The Story of the Williams Mastodon

By David Dyer, Natural History Curator, with Emily George Emily George was on a mission. She had heard about the Williams mastodon while growing up, and about how her grandfather Gus George had helped excavate the skeleton in Columbus in the mid-1950s. After talking with her family about the mastodon for a school genealogy project […]

Understanding the Climate Crisis – Part I

Understanding the Climate Crisis – Part II

Bones of a cool Ice Age animal! Answer to FoW #35.

January 21, 2015

It’s the youngest old sloth known!

January 6, 2015

How do you turn a tortoise popsicle into a beautiful museum piece?

December 1, 2014

“I vacuumed a passenger pigeon” – again!

November 21, 2014

It’s a Mastodon Vertebra! Answer to FoW #28

November 18, 2014

One Step Closer to Cloning a Mammoth