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    Fossil Discovery Center in Chowchilla to Unveil full size Mammoth Exhibit

    The Fossil Discovery Center of Madera County in Chowchilla has completed it's latest addition, a full sized Colombian Mammoth exhibit that stands over 13 feet tall.

    Chowchilla, CA (PRWEB) January 16, 2012

    The popular Fossil Discovery Center, which has been open a little more than a year since October of 2010, is unveiling the latest and largest of its new exhibits this Friday.

    The Fossil Discovery Center has completed the new exhibit, which is the body of an entire Colombian Mammoth that will now greet visitors as they enter the museum. Standing at approximately 13 feet tall, it’s an impressive greeting.

    The mammoth will be unveiled at a special event Friday, Jan. 20 at the Fossil Discovery Center. There will be hors d’ouevres and wine from various award winning Madera Wine Trail wineries poured as well. Members can attend the event for just $20 while non members’ tickets cost $25. Membership can be purchased at http://www.maderamammoths.org.

    The Fossil Discovery Center brings to life a very different Central Valley from the Pleistocene era around 700,000 year ago. The area we now call home once harbored numerous unique and fascinating creatures.

    Towering Colombian Mammoths, larger even than the Wooly Mammoth, grazed in the fertile grasslands. Sabretoothed cats, California’s state fossil, competed for food with other predators like the Dire Wolf, hunting other prehistoric animals that lived here, including Harlan’s Groundsloth, and relatives of today’s camels known as Camelops. Another denizen was the Short Faced Bear, the largest bear to ever walk the Earth, known to be 11 or taller when standing up.

    It’s the remains of these animals and more, that are on display at the Fossil Discovery Center of California in Chowchilla. Perhaps even more impressive, is each of these fossils was unearthed at the dig site, located adjacent to the museum, making Chowchilla home to the largest Pleistocene era fossil bed in the western United States.

    Fore more information on the event, or the Fossil Discovery Center, call (559) 665-7107. The Fossil Discovery Center is located at 19450 Ave. 21 1/2. Take exit 164 from Highway 99.

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    Jarrod Lyman
    Yosemite Sierra Visitors Bureau
    (559) 683-4636
    Email Information


     

    7 comments

    • Mr. Nice Guy  •  4 mths ago
      The greatest obstacle to learning anything is thinking you already know everything.
    • Thomas  •  Eau Claire, Wisconsin  •  4 mths ago
      you think man evolved from the mammoth? I'm guessing you have one hairy back.
    • Elanski  •  4 mths ago
      There is an incorrect word in the first sentence. It's ITS, not it's.
    • ACACIA72  •  Phoenix, Arizona  •  4 mths ago
      CLONE that sucker!
    • VOICE  •  4 mths ago
      DAD, you're a DUD.
    • GreyFoxx  •  4 mths ago
      Awesome ! Would love to see it !
    • dad  •  Blue Springs, Missouri  •  4 mths ago
      more proof of evolution emerges hidden away for years i'd bet that some creationist fool had something to do with them being hidden out of site rather then just destroyed
      • Sam 4 mths ago
        spoken like a "TRUE-BELIEVER"
      • dad 4 mths ago
        being from dallas i bet ur a bible thumping southern baptist who denies any possibilty of evolution or extra terrestrial colonization only the bible filled with lies and contradictions is the true word of god and source of life yea right books written thousands of years after the supposed event by men not by god and claiming to be divine messengers of god,there is no such thing as an all powerful all loving merciful god, such a being would never allow the events of the last 100 years nor commanded his children to kill their own offspring or make war and destroy entire cultures such as jericho any onewho believes this crap is an ignorant brainwashed #$%$ just like the taliban or al queda god was andis the creation of men to blame for their failings, explain what they dont understand and a crutch to get thru things they cant control but my initial comment was about the darwin fossils hidden away for over a century not about the mamoth discoverey and unvailing in madera
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