The Mammoth Project

When someone offers you a wooly mammoth, you say yes. We did, and now… You’re invited to celebrate the arrival of a never-before-exhibited complete woolly mammoth at the Natural History Society of Maryland. The exhibit takes visitors on a journey back in time to see and learn and experience Maryland in the Ice Age.

During the last Ice Age (Pleistocene c.2.58 million – 11,700 years ago), life and landscape of Maryland was vastly different. It was colder. There was no Chesapeake Bay. Mammoths, sabertoothed cats,  bison and great beavers roamed a land dominated by coniferous woods and marshy tundra.

Prof Ralf-Dietrich Kahlke from the Senckenberg Research Station for Quaternary Paleontology in Weimar, Germany, has recorded the maximum geographic distribution of the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) during the most recent Ice Age, and prepared the most accurate global map in this regard.

ABOUT THE MAMMOTH: ABOUT THE MAMMOTH: This mammoth was excavated in Alaska in partnership with local Native Alaskan communities using an ecologically friendly approach (fossils taken to surface via natural erosion).”

JOIN THE HERD

GoFundMe – Every dollar counts. Please give and encourage others to give also and receive interesting thank you gifts.

Purchase Mammoth Merch – Proudly display your Mammoth Magnanimity.

Enter the Woollyverse – Come learn about the ice age in lectures, events, a programs.