Thomas Jefferson sponsored the first U.S. science expedition, to dig up the remains of a wooly mammoth found near Newburgh, New York and which he later asked Lewis and Clark to look out for on their expedition. A local school middle school was trying to get the former mammoth site on the National Register of Historic Places I read working in survey archaeology nearby. President Jefferson thought it was important because it was common belief that horses were or would be smaller growing in America than in Europe which he found a preposterous belief. Finding large mammoths would have quickly set that right perhaps he thought. The first "urban legend"?
Comment 6/12/2007 9:19:06 AM New Theory on Old Debate: Comet Killed the Mammoth Washington Post "There are intriguing new clues in the mystery of how the woolly mammoth met its demise in North America more than 10,000 years ago" - Christopher Lee
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