This area has produced several well-preserved animal specimens from the Ice Age, including giant beavers, a baby mammoth and a wolf pup. Arctic ground squirrels are prey for a variety of carnivores.

With its superlong fangs, long snout and large eyes, the mouse-size animal bears an oddly striking resemblance to the fictional saber-toothed squirrels depicted in the computer-animated "Ice Age ...

Gold miners are finding fossils and mummified animals from the Ice Age. Now paleontologists have an ancient wolf pup, a baby mammoth, and a squirrel ball.