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Mammoth Site of Hot Springs
1800 Hwy 18 Truck Route/Bypass PO Box 692 Hot Springs, South Dakota 57747 605-745-6017 More than 26,000 years ago, large Columbian and woolly mammoths were trapped and died in a spring-fed pond near what is now the southwest edge of Hot Springs, South Dakota. Discovered by chance in 1974 while excavating for a housing development the Mammoth Site is the world's largest Columbian mammoth exhibit and research center for Pleistocene studies.
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