Big bone lick
Big Bone Lick State Park is located at Big Bone in Boone County, Kentucky. The name of the park comes from the Pleistocene megafauna fossils found there.
Big Bone Lick State Historic Site - Kentucky State Parks
Big Bone Lick Union, KY. Big Bone Lick’s museum exhibits are fresh and new! For more information and scheduling, please contact the park interpreter at [email protected] or ()
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Big Bone Lick State Park
Description:Columbian mammoths also had the longest tusks. Between and , while excavations were continuing, the salt industry developed in the area. Mammoths are believed to have been drawn to this location by a salt lick deposited around sulphur springs. It reached a size of around 9 feet. As early as the s, curiosity-seekers had been exploring the area and marveling at the large fossils they found there, including those of the mastodon. He also does a great job at showing how the discoveries at Big Bone Lick came to be so important for American paleontology, and how early naturalists viewed these fossils and the world the fossils came from. There is a fee for admission.
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