Principia College, where the mammouth was found, sits high on a bluff over the Mississippi River in Jersey County, Illinois. I'm told the landscape there 17,000 years ago was very different than it is today. But back then mammouths and sabre-tooth tigers roamed the area.
The bones of the mammouth found on campus were buried several feet down near some dorms. It's interesting that the bones of a wolf were also found on the site, possibly, I'm told, a lone wolf feeding on the mammouth or one of several wolves that may have attacked the giant.
The bones and tusks of the mammouth are so fragile, researchers have to keep coating them with a clear glue as they brush off the dirt. It's a tedious job, but the only way to keep the bones intact for display in the future.

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