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Come Visit the Hanford Reach Interpretive Center's Baby Woolly Mammoth.
Where:
The south end of Columbia Center Mall near the Old Navy store
1321 N Columbia Ctr Blvd, Kennewick, WA 99336
When:
July 4th through December 31st
Mammoths are the biggest mammals that ever walked the face of this earth. There were lots of different kinds of mammoths- big and small. The Columbian mammoth, which once roamed the shrub-steppe of the Mid-Columbia 10,000 to 50,000 years ago, grew to stand about 13 feet at the shoulder and weighed as much as 20,000 pounds. That is ten tons!
Baby mammoths lived in their mother for almost 2 years before they were born.
That's a long time to develop into a baby. When the baby mammoth finally saw daylight, it weighed nearly 220 pounds!
The skeleton is a replica of one discovered by Russian paleontologists in Siberia in the late 1990s. The original is at the North American Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point near Lehi, Utah. Paleontologists at the museum created an exact-scale replica of the original skeleton for the REACH. The original is believed to be the smallest mammoth ever discovered and the only complete baby woolly mammoth skeleton on display in the world.
The Baby Mammoth Discovery Exhibit and Expedition would not have been possible without the support of:
The Tri-City Herald
Lockheed Martin
KNDU
Power 99.1 KUJ-FM
The Columbia Center Mall
Regal Cinemas
Fairchild Cinemas
The Field Group
FotoWhite
The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation
The Mammoth Site, Hot Springs, South Dakota
The Museum of Ancient Life in America
