New Waco museum reveals a mammoth undertaking

Austin American Statesman ^ | 3.6.2010 | Pamela LeBlanc

[wolfcreek]

WACO — It's been more than 30 years since two men out hunting snakes pulled the first mammoth bones from a dry creek bed on the outskirts of Waco, but for the first time, the site has opened to the public.

In all, 26 Columbian mammoths have been uncovered at the Waco Mammoth Site, and scientists think more might be buried on the 105-acre property, owned by Baylor University and the City of Waco, a few miles west of Interstate 35.

[wolfcreek]

Time to go back and visit my old stomping grounds.

Along with this place:

http://www.cameronparkzoo.com/

[wolfcreek]

Mammoth ping!

[bgill]

Nowhere else but Texas can you find a mammoth while out snake hunting.

The museum is free on the first Sunday of the month.

[decimon]

Nowhere else but Texas can you find a mammoth while out snake hunting.

Backpaching.

[wolfcreek]

Thanks for the info.

Been meaning to get up that way for a while.

[ExGeeEye]

Is it suggested that they all died at once? Or that this was the place (as elephants are said to have a place) where they went to die?

[doodad]

Researchers believe the mammoths at the Waco site, which include the fossilized remains of the largest known nursery herd of females and juveniles in North America (the only bigger herd was found in Siberia) and several smaller groups, died in a series of floods spread over thousands of years

[Bulwyf]

or maybe just one big flood, but researchers wouldn’t want to say anything about that and give the old testament any attention heh.

[Cvengr]

Ahh Shoot,..that's just where we used to take the sick Longhorns. This is Texas, where EVERYTHING's Big!

9'-1" , 97 pound rattler

[Quix]

THX THX

[wolfcreek]

It also suggest they may have drowned upstream and washed down into a pile.

I’m guessing they did have their own elephant *graveyard*

[SunkenCiv]

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[wildbill]

Ye gods! A mammoth pile.

And in my state, getting closer and closer.