"The Fossil Guy" series continues at the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History on Saturday, Nov. 10, at 2 p.m., with “When the Mammoths Roamed Iowa." Each program consists of a 30-minute talk by Don Johnson, a local amateur paleontologist, followed by a question and answer session. The free public events are held in Macbride Auditorium.

Learn about the recovery process of the mammoth bones discovered recently near Oskaloosa, Iowa; the difference between a woolly mammoth and a Columbian mammoth and where each lived in Iowa; and about other animals living in Iowa during the Ice Age, including the giant short-faced bear, the American lion, gray wolf, and giant ground sloth.

See and touch mineralized bones of Ice Age creatures, including mammoths, mastodons, horses, bison, and deer. View replica skulls of the saber-tooth cat Smilodon and the dire wolf from the La Brea Tar Pits in California. Artifacts of Paleolithic man will be used to help recreate the Ice Age world of North America. Can you solve the puzzle of why the Ice Age animals went extinct?

Be sure to catch the Fossil Guy’s last visit of the fall series on Nov. 17 featuring “Become a Paleo Private Eye,” and be sure to see him again when he returns in the spring.

For more information about the "Fossil Guy" program and other UI Museum of Natural History programs, visit www.uiowa.edu/mnh or call 319-335-0606.