Columbia Mammoth

ID: 5401
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Mammoths like these roamed most of North America, and were among the last of the Pleistocene megafauna to become extinct. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

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By Larry Cebula
In the early 1990s, second-graders in Mrs. Sara Jane Aebly’s class at Windsor Elementary School discovered that Washington State did not have an official state fossil. Encouraged by their teacher, they decided to try to create one. After some…