A mammoth model is seen at the Childrens Discovery museum in San Jose, California
Children's Discovery Museum opens Mammoth Discovery!, a 2,200 square foot exhibition that sparks the scientist within each of us to discover, find out more and tell a story. Featuring Lupe's actual skull, femur, and pelvis fossils, a full size replica of Lupe inside, a model of a fully grown mammoth outside, and 20 other fun and interesting hands-on exhibits, the exhibition is sure to delight both children and adults. In the summer of 2005, citizen scientist Roger Castillo was walking his dog, Jenna, along the Guadalupe River near the San Jose airport and discovered the skull of a Columbian mammoth. When paleontologists from UC Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology came down to conduct the excavation, they also discovered a thigh bone and the pelvis of this juvenile mammoth, now affectionately called Lupe, after the river along which she was discovered. Though now extinct, Lupe would have roamed the valley about 14,000 years ago.
Size: 4800px × 3363px
Location: San Jose, CA USA
Photo credit: © M2 Photography / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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