Mammoth Skeleton

ID: 5402
This file appears in: Mammoth Undertaking for Cheney Students

This mounted skeleton of a Columbian Mammoth is on display at the George C. Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, California. Image courtesy of Wolfman SF via Wikimedia Commons.

This file appears in: Mammoth Undertaking for Cheney Students

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…