Mammoth

Mammoths in the Desert

Western Science Center serves as a fossil repository for several state and federal agencies, including the National Park Service. Related to that responsibility, a couple of times a year we send a team under permit to Joshua Tree National Park to collect fossils that have naturally weathered out of the

Paleontology

Harvey the Mammoth

Later this year Western Science Center will be opening a new permanent exhibit (more on that in a future post). One of the highlighted specimens in this exhibit will be the skull of Harvey the Mammoth. Like many of WSC's specimens, Harvey was discovered during a construction project,