This paleontological site represents the nation’s only recorded discovery of a nursery herd of Columbian mammoths. Reaching 4 m (13 ft) at the shoulders and 22,000 lb in weight, research has indicated that between 65,000 and 72,000 years ago, a nursery herd of at least 19 mammoths were trapped and drowned by rapidly rising flood waters from the Bosque River.
Columbian mammoth fossil, Waco Mammoth National Monument
Jay Galvin
Monday, July 13, 2020
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