The Age of Mammals Mural

Rudolph F. Zallinger’s great mural The Age of Mammals is the centerpiece for the Hall of Mammalian Evolution at the Yale Peabody Museum. Although the principal focus of the mural is on the momentous evolutionary developments taking place in the warm-blooded, hairy, milk-giving vertebrates known as mammals, the painting also depicts the striking changes that were transforming the landscapes, the climates, and the plant life of western North America starting shortly after the extinction of the dinosaurs, about 66 million years ago and culminating with the giant animals of the Ice Age, about 8,000 years ago.

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