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Title: Ancient trail of Columbian mammoths uncovered in south-central Oregon
Post by: rangerrebew on February 14, 2018, 02:49:38 pm
Ancient trail of Columbian mammoths uncovered in south-central Oregon
February 12, 2018, University of Oregon
 

A fossilized trackway on public lands in Lake County, Oregon, may reveal clues about the ancient family dynamics of Columbian mammoths.

Recently excavated by a team from the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, the Bureau of Land Management and the University of Louisiana, the trackway includes 117 footprints thought to represent a number of adults as well as juvenile and infant mammoths.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-02-ancient-trail-columbian-mammoths-uncovered.html#jCp