On October 2nd, 2023 me and my siblings went to the Waco Mammoth National Monument. There, me and my siblings got to see real Colombian Mammoth bones. These bone were discovered in 1978 by Paul Barron and Eddie Bufkin when they were teenagers. In 1978 these boy were trespassing and found a Colombian Mammoth bone. They didn’t know this at first so when they found the bone and they took it to a nearby museum to get it looked at. The research concluded it was a Colombian Mammoth femur bone. The owner of the property found out what the boys had discovered on his property, and he allowed paleontologists and geologists to look for more bones. In 1978-1980 they found five full skeletons of female Colombian Mammoths! Due to a lack of funding there was not a full scale excavation. After some flooding happened in Waco, Texas people were able to find 11 full skeletons of mammoths. Once this happened people started to make a building to uncover these mammoth skeletons and they also made dams to make sure no other flooding happened. A couple of years later and they were able to find 15 more full skeletons of mammoths. One thing to mention here is that they were all females. When there is a group of female mammoths it is called A Nursery. In 1996, Sam Jack McGlasson (this was the man that owned the property) donated just under five acres of land to the city of Waco for the purpose of developing research. A total of 26 Colombian Mammoths were found along with some other ancient animal bones. And in 2009 this because a place open to the public to visit.