Highway paleontologist Shane Tucker holds the jawbone of a mastodon, an Ice Age elephant, that was found recently in Southeast Nebraska. Travis Benda and his sons found the fossil in early December while deer hunting along the Little Nemaha River.
Highway paleontologist Shane Tucker holds the jawbone of a mastodon, an Ice Age elephant, that was found recently in Southeast Nebraska. Travis Benda and his sons found the fossil in early December while deer hunting along the Little Nemaha River.
Archie, the life-size bronze replica of an ancient Nebraska mammoth at the University of Nebraska State Museum, gets his biennial wash from J.R. Elkins and Colby Cochran of G & M Window Service on Thursday, June 28, 2012 in front of Morrill Hall in Lincoln. Patterned after the giant fossil skeleton on display in the museum's Elephant Hall, the statue is 15 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs 5,000 pounds -- considerably less than the 15-ton mass of the real Archie who roamed the Plains 30,000 years ago. (JACOB HANNAH/Lincoln Journal Star)
Archie, the life-size bronze replica of an ancient Nebraska mammoth at the University of Nebraska State Museum, gets his biennial wash from J.R. Elkins (left) and Colby Cochran of G and M Window Services in 2012 in front of Morrill Hall in Lincoln. Patterned after the giant fossil skeleton on display in the museum's Elephant Hall, the statue is 15 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs 5,000 pounds -- considerably less than the 15-ton mass of the real Archie who roamed the Plains 30,000 years ago.
Archie, the life-size bronze replica of an ancient Nebraska mammoth at the University of Nebraska State Museum, gets his biennial wash from J.R. Elkins and Colby Cochran of G and M Window Services on Thursday, June 28, 2012 in front of Morrill Hall in Lincoln. Patterned after the giant fossil skeleton on display in the museum's Elephant Hall, the statue is 15 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs 5,000 pounds -- considerably less than the 15-ton mass of the real Archie who roamed the Plains 30,000 years ago. (JACOB HANNAH/Lincoln Journal Star)
Archie, the life-size bronze replica of an ancient Nebraska mammoth at the University of Nebraska State Museum, gets his biennial wash from J.R. Elkins and Colby Cochran of G & M Window Service on Thursday, June 28, 2012 in front of Morrill Hall in Lincoln. Patterned after the giant fossil skeleton on display in the museum's Elephant Hall, the statue is 15 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs 5,000 pounds -- considerably less than the 15-ton mass of the real Archie who roamed the Plains 30,000 years ago. (JACOB HANNAH/Lincoln Journal Star)
JACOB HANNAH/Lincoln Journal Star
Archie, the life-size bronze replica of an ancient Nebraska mammoth at the University of Nebraska State Museum, gets his biennial wash from J.R. Elkins (left) and Colby Cochran of G and M Window Services in 2012 in front of Morrill Hall in Lincoln. Patterned after the giant fossil skeleton on display in the museum's Elephant Hall, the statue is 15 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs 5,000 pounds -- considerably less than the 15-ton mass of the real Archie who roamed the Plains 30,000 years ago.
Journal Star file photo
Archie, the life-size bronze replica of an ancient Nebraska mammoth at the University of Nebraska State Museum, gets his biennial wash from J.R. Elkins and Colby Cochran of G and M Window Services on Thursday, June 28, 2012 in front of Morrill Hall in Lincoln. Patterned after the giant fossil skeleton on display in the museum's Elephant Hall, the statue is 15 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs 5,000 pounds -- considerably less than the 15-ton mass of the real Archie who roamed the Plains 30,000 years ago. (JACOB HANNAH/Lincoln Journal Star)
Highway paleontologist Shane Tucker holds the jawbone of a mastodon, an Ice Age elephant, that was found recently in Southeast Nebraska. Travis Benda and his sons found the fossil in early December while deer hunting along the Little Nemaha River.
Highway paleontologist Shane Tucker holds the jawbone of a mastodon, an Ice Age elephant, that was found recently in Southeast Nebraska. Travis Benda and his sons found the fossil in early December while deer hunting along the Little Nemaha River.
