Swiss Museum Shows Glacier Relics Amid 5.5% Melt

Fossils and museum collections offer clues about the formidable predators that lived alongside early humans during the Ice Age. One account highlights short-faced bears and dire wolves as competitors for prey and carcasses, while Leeds curators are conserving remains of extinct predators found in Britain and Ireland, including a bear skull, wolf tooth and cave hyena jaw. The collections also include other megafauna, such as mammoth and giant Irish elk remains, preserving evidence of animals that once inhabited the region.