五头乳齿象、三头冰河期野牛和一头幼年哥伦比亚猛犸象的部分遗骸,以及植物和昆虫都已被发现。
Partial remains of five mastodons, three Ice Age bison and a juvenile Columbian mammoth, as well as plant matter and insects, have been found.
但是,考古学家表示,很多此前发现的猛犸象骨骼化石中含有史前洪水冲击下来的碎片。冰河时代末期的哥伦比亚盆地曾屡次受到史前大洪水的冲击。
But most prior discoveries of mammoth bones have involved fragments washed down during the prehistoric floods that repeatedly swept across the Columbia Basin at the end of the Ice Age.
哥伦比亚猛犸与今天的大象有着亲缘关系。他们在一万年以前的大冰河时代结束之时就已灭绝。
Columbian mammoths are ancient Cousins of the modern elephant, and they have been extinct since the end of the last Ice Age more than 10,000 years ago.
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