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Unlike many outdoor - [Discover The Mammoth Site](https://mammothsite.org/discover-the-mammoth-site/) - Tucked into the southern Black Hills in Hot Springs, South Dakota, The Mammoth Site offers something you won’t find anywhere else in the world. - [Lang Family Dig Building Dedicated](https://mammothsite.org/lang-family-dig-building-dedicated/) - HOT SPRINGS, S.D. – Donations and support from local businesses, foundations and the Lang Family have made the opening of a new dig building and a free summer camp program possible at The Mammoth Site. During The Mammoth Site’s 50th anniversary celebrations, the Lang Family Dig Building was officially dedicated. 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Beavers have been around for a long time (since the late Eocene, about 33 million years ago) and were not all semi-aquatic, tree chewing, dam building like the beavers we see and love today. Some of these fossil beavers lived exclusively on land and dug spiral burrows - [A Bone Voyage](https://mammothsite.org/a-bone-voyage/) - “I have been wonderfully lucky, with fossil bones — some of the animals must have been of great dimensions: I am almost sure that many of them are quite new; this is always pleasant, but with the antediluvian animals it is doubly so.” —Letter from Charles Darwin to his sister Caroline, October 1832. - [Botany and Bones in Brazil](https://mammothsite.org/botany-and-bones-in-brazil/) - By Greg McDonald The first discoveries of the ground sloths Megatherium and Megalonyx consisted of single individuals that were not mixed with other species. 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