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Welcome to Backwoods University, a place where we focus on wildlife, wild places, and the people who dedicate their lives to

conserve it both. Big shout out to Onyx Hunt for their support of this podcast. I'm your host,

Lake Pickle. And on today's episode, we're going back. And I mean way back. Back to prehistoric times

to learn about mammoths, giant marine lizards, dinosaurs, caribou, and moose,

and guess what?

All of these are found in Mississippi.

Let's get into it.

We're going to it.

We're going to have volunteers. Crazy cool. One of my volunteers is working on portions of a mastodon that was dug up at the Vicksburg

Mall in the mid-1980s.

We had already prepped and preserved a portion of it, including the tusks, which had been on display

downstairs for a number of years now. This looks very much out of place. You recognize it,

of course, as a baby incubator. That is what that is. Okay. But we've repurposed it for a vacuum system.

Okay.

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