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MT. BLANCO FOSSIL MUSEUM AND CASTING CO. |
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124 W. Main, P.O. Box 550, Crosbyton, TX 79322 (806) 675-7777 (806) 675-2421 (Fax) |
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THIS SITE CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION |
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WACO SUDDEN DEATH MAMMOTH |
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Sudden Death Mammoth Painting by Joe Taylor. |
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Below is a skull from juvenile female held in bulls tusks. The skull was buried upside down after it floated 10 feet from the body. After petrification, something crushed the bulls skull. Perhaps a tree grew on top of it and was later pushed over by a storm. Taylor has seen trees in the area do just that. |
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Assistant Joel Peck (left) and Joe Taylor inches the heavy mammoth skull in its field jacket to work table for restoration. |
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Skull is moved on to work table (Mt Blanco Museum shop). |
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Stacey Latimer vacuums away the matrix being removed by the Chicago pneumatic. |
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Joe and museum volunteer Stacey Latimer removing the field jacket from off of the skull. |
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A pencil-sized jackhammer called a Chicago pnuematic is used to remove the clay and calcium carbonate from the fragile mammoth skull. The matrix has to be carefully removed a fraction of an inch at a time, and the fractured bones hardened with PVA (Polyvinyl acetate). |
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Several layers of latex are applied to produce one of the molds. |
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SECOND LARGEST MOLD EVER MADE OF AN IN SITU ANIMAL |
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