This is a really cool place - I thought of Andrew the entire time I was there and his love of dinosaurs. The site is that of an old sink hole that filled with warm water and then mammoths came, drank of its goodness and could not escape the slick sides of the whole so they died of starvation, drowning or fell and were hurt. The site is so cool - it was found when a developer began to bulldoze the site in preparation for homes and found the first bones. It was soon bought and the Mammoth site was developed. There is a lab and the whole and a museum. Kids can sign up to do a junior dig and learn all about unearthing the bones beneath. It was really amazing. All of the bones that have been found have been of males, mainly younger because they were rambunctious and would go to the edge of the hole, fall in and never escape. Very interesting! The Mammoths were mainly Columbian Mammoths. Below are some of the bones that have been found.
These are the tools that are used.
A pelvis bone.
Sideways footprints from when they fell in.
An almost complete skeleton.
This is Dallas (5'8") standing next to an actual size replica of the Columbian Mammoth - they were really big as you can tell.
This was really fun, cool, pretty cheap place, check it out.
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