For thousands of years, mineral-rich salt licks drew enormous Ice Age animals to this area, where many became trapped and left fossil remains behind. The park now interprets mammoths, mastodons and other prehistoric animals and maintains a modern bison herd near the visitor center.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: parks.ky.gov/explore/big-bone-lick-state-historic-site-7810