In 2021, Northwest Missouri professor David Easterla donated 2,600 ice age bones from river bottoms in northwest Missouri and southwest Iowa, including bones of dire wolves and mastodons, to the prestigious University of Nebraska State Museum-Morrill Hall. They are displayed in the David A. Easterla Room at the Hall.
Easterla noted that his collection went to Nebraska because they were better able to handle such a vast collection than would have been done at Northwest or the University of Missouri.
2022 Facebook page showing the room.
2024 article on renovation to the museum, including featuring the Easterla exhibit
2025 Instagram showing some of the exhibits from 12,000 to 25,000 years ago.