On July 10, 2015, President Barack Obama issued a Presidential Proclamation making the Waco Mammoth Site a new unit of the National Park System. This paleontological site represents the nation’s only recorded discovery of a nursery herd of Columbian mammoths. Visitors can view "in situ" fossils including female mammoths, a bull mammoth, and a camel that lived approximately 67,000 years ago.
Meet a Mammoth that isn’t Woolly
![Visitors observe fossils from a suspended walkway in the dig shelter.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170127210555im_/https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/grid_builder/imr/crop16_9/6680B17D-1DD8-B71B-0BF79B3817E9FD33.jpg?width=950&quality=90&mode=crop)
Visiting Waco Mammoth National Monument
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