'Archie,' a Columbian mammoth specimen at the University of Nebraska State Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska (© Joel Sartore/Getty Images)

'Archie,' a Columbian mammoth specimen at the University of Nebraska State Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska (© Joel Sartore/Getty Images)

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• They call this specimen “Archie.”""Just don\t call him “woolly”
• Tar pits took the lives of many of these mammoths and other creatures of their time.""But those pits also offer paleontologists a window onto the distant past
• These prehistoric proboscideans once roamed across the southern half of North America.""Our model is on display in the state where he was found