2008-03-12 - Des Moines, United States.
Rosie will return to Des Moines this summer. And this time, she'll bring her baby. The 7,300-pound elephant drew large crowds when she visited Blank Park Zoo in 2000. Zoo officials have tried for three years to bring her back. "I'm amazed at the number of people who come to the zoo and say, 'Is Rosie coming back?' " said Terry Rich, chief executive officer of the zoo at 7401 S.W. Ninth St. Rosie has gained about 900 pounds since her last trip to Iowa. She is just short of 8 feet tall. Her 1,000-...
2007-06-19 - Des Moines, United States. Tom Alex
Bill Marnin of Stuart was looking for peace and quiet, not a piece of history, when he launched his kayak for a trip on the Middle Raccoon River. Instead, he stumbled on a tooth from an elephant-like creature that disappeared from North America about 10,000 years ago. Bill Johnson, curator of the State Historical Museum of Iowa in Des Moines, said Marnin's discovery, made last month on a sandbar near Redfield, is a very good example of a molar from a young to middle-age adult mastodon that lived...
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