According to the National Park Service (NPS), the Waco Mammoth Site is “The nation’s first and only recorded discovery of a nursery herd of Pleistocene mammoths.”
After 30 years of excavation, the Waco Mammoth Site in Waco,TX a project teaming private landowners and donors in partnership wtih the NPS, the City of Waco, Baylor University, and the Mayborn Museum, is now open!
So far 24 mammoths have been discovered, and it's likely other fossils exist also. If you are an amateur or wannabae Paleontologist and happen to be passing through Waco, the museum is still looking for volunteers to lead tours at the dig site.
The public opening took place Saturday, Dec. 5 and the site will begin normal operating hours on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009.
Admission rates range from $5 to $7. Open 11 AM to 5 PM Tuesdays thru Fridays, 9 to 5 Saturdays.
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