The Pleistocene Epoch The word Pleistocene is Greek and refers to the most recent Ice Age. Time Frame Geologists refer to the Pleistocene as an epoch starting around 2.6 million years ago (MYA) and lasting

The Mammoth Tundra-Steppe Ecosystem Numerous papers have been written about Sergey Zimov and his elaborate project, including one by Zimov himself published in 2005 in Science: Pleistocene Park: Return

Pleistocene Park and the Siberian Tiger Among the more ambitious of Sergei Zimov's ideas is the plan to reintroduce Siberian Tigers. This is perhaps even more ambitious than the plan to clone mammoth DNA

In Northern Siberia, a Mammoth Steppe Ecosystem Pleistocene Park is an ambitious project begun in 1988 by Sergei Zimov based in the Sakha Republic, Northern Siberia to make a facsimile prehistoric landscape,

Imagine standing next to a live woolly mammoth, dwarfed by its enormous tusks and carpet of hair. Ice Age exhibition in Denmark. It might turn its head suddenly to look at a noise, and you would have to