Zed the Mammoth from La Brea

When I was just a wee child, my ultimate career goal was to be an archaeologist because I was a huge dinosaur geek.

I'm still sort of a dinosaur geek, which is why I'm posting this, even though it's not totally art-related. Researchers from the Page Museum, while digging in an underground parking garage of LACMA (see? art-related.) found a mammoth skeleton in 2007 that they've named Zed, who is complete save for one missing leg. They've recently started excavating his bones.

They also found the skeleton and the skull of a prehistoric American lion, bones of wolves, saber-tooth cats, ground sloths (which are the coolest of all North American megafauna), bison, and a bunch of late Pleistocene era insects, plants, and sea creatures.