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Waco Mammoth National Monument protects the nation's only recorded discovery of a nursery herd of Columbian mammoths — animals that stood as tall as 14 feet and weighed up to 20,000 pounds. Paul Barron and Eddie Bufkin found the site in 1978 while searching for arrowheads near the Bosque River, and President Obama made it a national monument on July 10, 2015.
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Waco Mammoth National Monument protects the nation's only recorded discovery of a nursery herd of Columbian mammoths. Source ↗
Columbian mammoths could stand as tall as 14 feet and weigh up to 20,000 pounds. Source ↗
The site was found in 1978 when Paul Barron and Eddie Bufkin went searching for arrowheads and fossils near the Bosque River. Source ↗
Between 65,000 and 72,000 years ago, a nursery herd of at least 19 mammoths drowned when floodwaters rose rapidly. Source ↗
Between 1978 and 1990, the fossil remains of 16 Columbian mammoths were discovered. Source ↗
President Obama made the site Waco Mammoth National Monument, part of the National Park Service, on July 10, 2015. Source ↗
