A Female Mammoth

— Going back some 67,000 years ago, there were mammoths roaming around in central Texas. The Waco Mammoth National Monument offers a glimpse in the past of these gigantic animals. An adult mammoth could easily stand 14 feet (4.25 m) tall and weigh 20,000 lbs (9,071.85 kg)! What a visitor will find at the Waco Mammoth NM is the “first and only recorded evidence of a nursery herd of ice age Columbian mammoths,” says the park’s website. In this two photos shown here, you have an example of one of the female mammoths. Notice in the photo below, a close-up of its mandible and series of strong teeth.