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For the second time this month in Southern California, a large amount mammoth remains have been found. First, it was in San Diego two weeks ago when construction crews were preparing to build a law school in downtown-they found an 8-foot tusk, skull and foot bones from a Columbian mammoth, estimated to be 500,000 years old.

Quinn Baumberger is about to accomplish the unbelievable. He's about to finish a journey from the top of Alaska to the bottom of Argentina via bicycle.

Perhaps those of you who frequent Wilshire Boulevard along the La Brea Tar Pits noticed the new location of the trapped Woolly Mammoth near the streetside enclosure, as pictured above. Around December of last year, the fiberglass mammoth wrangled loose of its tether and drifted Southward, spurring this writer to wonder whether a new narrative was being constructed for the 40-ish year-old display. It would appear the middle-aged pachyderm merely broke free of her moorings and simply beached herself on the opposite shore. We have expended very little energy to track down the true story behind the Winter migration, though we suspect it could have something to do with the McNaught Comet.