A watercolour depicting a flowering steppe landscape in spring on the edge of a snowy mountain range. It is a sunny day, there are many colourful flowers amidst the grasses, and a small river runs meandering through the left side of the image, starting in a valley in the mountains. A raven flies over the entire scene. Below it, there are steppe mammoths bathing in the river. There are seven of them: four adults, all with tusks though one of them has a broken tusk, and three calfs of various sizes. They are large, furry brown elephants, though not as furry as woolly mammoths and with straighter tusks. Two of them are spraying water from their snouts and they are all having a good time. Across the river, a Megaloceros is kneeling to eat some riverbank plants. It is a large deer with extremely impressive antlers. In the lower right corner are two roe deer, quite small compared to the megafauna, keeping an eye on their surroundings. Further in the background we see a herd of steppe bison. They are large, beefy bovids with a big bump on their backs. There are about twenty of them, mostly adults but some smaller young mixed in, and they leave a muddy trampled and grazed trail behind them. Even farther away there are four wolves observing the bison. Behind the wolves the mountains start. Very soon after the landscape's height starts increasing, it becomes snow-covered, and barely any bare rock is visible on the icy mountains. Several birds and the gibbous Moon are visible in the clear blue sky. One is a circling buzzard, a brown bird of prey. The other is a flock of six geese flying to the left.
350k years ago, just beyond the western edge of the icy Schwarzwald, spring has come to the mammoth steppe. A raven flies over a group of mammoths enjoying a cold bath in the river, while a Megaloceros grazes on some choice plants growing on the riverbanks.
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