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UNLV: 21,000-Year-Old Fossil Mammoth Excavated From Amargosa Valley
April 25, 2022
LAS VEGAS, Nevada, April 25 (TNSRes) -- The University of Nevada Las Vegas campus issued the following news release:

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UNLV paleontologists help publish the study of fossils in Nye County.

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Paleontologists from UNLV and the Las Vegas Natural History Museum have wrapped up and published a study of fossil Columbian mammoth bones excavated in Amargosa Valley, in Nye County, 30 miles northwest of Pahrump.

The excavation was di . . .

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