Mammoth Site in South Dakota Contains dozens of fossils

You can watch these experts unravel fossilized secrets – from foot to tusks – in real time at The Mammoth Site museum, which recently celebrated its 50th anniversary.

Over the past half century, excavators have uncovered fossils from 61 mammoths and many other ancient creatures, and they’re not even halfway to the bottom of the sinkhole.

There could be dozens of undiscovered mammoths in it unexcavated pieces.

“I never fail to be inspired when I walk into the museum,” Chris Jass, the museum’s director of research, told Business Insider. “Stand right where those animals lived, where they died.”

Take a look back into the Pleistocene past, when mammoths roamed over 100,000 years ago.