Visitors view fossils from above using the elevated walkway.Photo: NPS Photo
Standing as tall as 14 feet and weighing 20,000 pounds, Columbian mammoths roamed across what is present-day Texas thousands of years ago. Today, the fossil specimens represent the nation's first and only recorded evidence of a nursery herd of ice age Columbian mammoths.
Waco Mammoth National Monument became part of the National Park Service on July 10, 2015.Photo: NPS PhotoOn July 10, 2015, President Barack Obama issued a Presidential Proclamation making the Waco Mammoth Site a new unit of the National Park System.Photo: Official White House photo by Amanda LucidonThis paleontological site represents the nation’s only recorded discovery of a nursery herd of Columbian mammoths.Photo: NPS PhotoMammoth fossils are in situ (still in their original position within the bone bed).Photo: NPS Photo
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