CHICAGO — Walking through the Field Museum’s Evolving Planet exhibit, a museum visitor can see how the world has changed during the last 4.5 billion years.
There’s SUE the T-rex, the museum’s most famous dinosaur fossil. There are replicas of early humans. And there’s everything in between.
A stop in the Ice Age exhibit reveals woolly mammoth paintings and a mastodon skeleton. Standing right next to it, at about 13 feet tall, is a mammoth skeleton that with its two large tusks and long legs looks an awful lot like a modern-day elephant.
But the history of this mammoth is a little bit more complicated. And it started in Spokane County.