Explore Milwaukee County (Click on picture) Milwaukee County, created in 1834 as a territorial county, is derived from a Native American word Mahnawaukee-Seepe meaning gathering place by the river.. Located in southeast Wisconsin, the county seat is Milwaukee.
The Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event, or the K-T event, is the name given to the die-off of the dinosaurs and other species that took place some 65.5 million years ago. For many years, paleontologists believed this event was caused by climate and geological changes that interrupted the dinosaursâ food supply.
Scientists may have figured out why the woolly mammoth became extinct. A new study of the prehistoric beasts suggests they might have been wiped out after the last Ice Age. There's evidence that humans hunted mammoths and it was previously thought the mammoth may have driven to extinction by hunters. But scientists analysed the dozens of mammoth fossils and now think rising temperatures melting the mammoths' habitat drove them to extinction.