Waco Mammoth

The Waco Mammoth National Monument is a paleontological site and museum in Waco, Texas, United States where fossils of 24 Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi) and other mammals from the Pleistocene Epoch have been uncovered.

U.S. National Park Service

The Waco Mammoth National Monument displays in situ fossil remains of Columbian Mammoths and other Ice Age animals.

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WACO MAMMOTH NATIONAL MONUMENT

This important archaeological find containing the remains of twenty-five Columbian mammoths lies just on the outskirts of the city of Waco. Paul Barron and Eddie Bufkin discovered the site in 1978 while hiking along the banks of the Brazos searching for fossils and arrowheads. As Barron climbed up an incline in the riverbank, a piece of bone broke off in his hand. Recognizing the significance of his discovery, he brought the bone to geologists at the Strecker Museum at Baylor...

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NPCA interviews Waco Mammoth Program Coordinator Raegan King, who oversees Waco Mammoth National Monument and currently serves as president of the Museum Association of Waco.

In 1978, two fossil hunters working their way cross-country near the Bosque River discovered a large bone protruding out an eroded ravine.

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