This week we visited another bone 🦴 site, “yay”. This one was mostly mammoths 🦣 and not Woolly mammoths, well there were two Woolly mammoths but Colombian mammoths were the most common there. Colombian mammoths are the biggest type of mammoth that they’ve found there.
The reason that all the mammoths were there was because there was a sinkhole and then it was a warm pool of water with grass growing on the shore even with snow all around. When young male mammoths tried to get an easy snack out of the grass they fell into the hole🕳and couldn’t get out from the bottom because of the steep banks.
When they tried to cross the water to the possibly shorter bank on the other side they found dangerously deep water in the middle of the pool. The hole ultimately gathered a lot of bones and now it is a historical sight and we “LOVE” historical sights so we went there. We walked around the sinkhole for a while and listened to a self guided tour about the sinkhole and the mammoths and some other mammals like the Short Nose bear.
The Short Nose bear was the largest bear ever. We don’t really know why the bear was in the pool, maybe it was trying to get a young mammoth and it was to much for him, maybe he got injured, crawled into the pool for a drink and didn’t get out again, maybe he just drowned. However he died, we got to see a replica of his skeleton and see the size of his claws they were bigger then the other bear claws.
So that’s what we did at Mammoth.
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So interesting! Thanks!