The Moorpark Mammoth Finds a Home

Santa Barbara is a great vacation town; the hiking and water sports are fun, and the museums are world-class. Now one museum is getting a local million-year old mammoth.

Hooray! One of my favorite North American vacation towns, Santa Barbara, may have scored a real coup. The Los Angeles Times reported that a million-year old mammoth fossil discovered in nearby Moorpark, is most likely going to be exhibited prominently and permanently at one of Santa Barbara's museums. The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History is one of my favorite SB museums; it's remarkable to find such a world-class natural history museum in a smallish, upscale beachy town like this. The fossilized Moorpark mammoth, determined by paleontologists to be an adult female, will be a major part of the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum's geology fossil exhibit.

So, the next time you're planning a long weekend in Santa Barbara, consider taking time out from all the day spa massages, ocean activity and relaxation in your luxury hotel. Check out the Moorpark mammoth at the Museum of Natural History - I know I will, next time I'm in SB.

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