The McBones Foundation–the Mid-Columbia Basin Old Natural Educational Sciences–has bought a fossil excavation site in Kennewick, Washington so that high school students can collaborate with college students and professionals to excavate mammoth bones at the site.

Bax Barton, a researcher at the Burke Museum in Seattle, will be one of those professionals. He’s interested in finding out whether the mammoth was hunted in that area. He thinks perhaps climate change and habitat change led to the extinction of mammoths in North America.

For more information, check this article: Mammoth Bones Being Dug Up by Tri-Cities Students.