Members of the Texas Rangers baseball team visited the Texas Through Time Museum dig site for the excavation of a 40,000-year-old Columbian mammoth in Italy on Jan. 28, including team members Josh Sborz, Cody Bradford and communications director John Blake (center). Tusks can be seen on lower right. Photo Credit: Courtesy photo
Bill Spinks wspinks@cherryroad.com Mammoths once roamed the Southern Plains freely as recently as 12,000 years ago, including the portion that now includes Ellis County. Recently,…