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Columbian Mammoth Found in Downtown L.A.

On February 18, 2009, the George C. Page Museum announced the discovery of 16 new fossil deposits under a parking lot owned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that is adjacent to the La Brae Tar Pits. The most exciting animal among these new deposits is Zed, a large male Columbian Mammoth. Zed's body and 10' tusks miraculously escaped predators and his skeleton is nearly complete. Find out other amazing facts about Zed.

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The Largest Elephant that Ever Existed

The largest elephant that ever lived was huge, taller than your two story Mayfair flat and almost as tall as the average telephone pole. Evolved from smaller Siberian mammoths, the Songhua River Mammoth roamed Northern China and Inner Mongolia during the Middle Pleistocene about 280,000 years ago. It survived into the Late Pleistocene but died out well before the end of the last ice age.

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