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UI Scientists Geeked Out About Mammoth Skeleton Found in Iowa: Iowa City Daily News Links, June 7

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The bones found about 60 miles southwest of Des Moines were largely undisturbed, which has allowed scientists to gather evidence that could help show what the area was like more than 12,000 years ago when the animal died. Those excavating the site already have collected pollen grains, seeds, a spruce pine needle and other plant material from the site.

“A find of this size is quite rare because it looks like we have a lot of the animal rather than just a single bone here and there,” said Sarah Horgen, education coordinator for the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History, which is overseeing the excavation.

“What’s important to the university is looking at the environmental context that we can recover as part of this excavation, looking at what Iowa was like at the end of the last ice age,” she said.

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