Who made the decicion to get the piece of art/exhibition in Arizona natural history Museum Columbian mammoth, Mammuthus columbi. Mammoths entered North America from Eurasia via the Beringia land bridge from Asia to North America between 1.6 and 1.3 million years ago. There are several species of mammoth, but all identified with certainty from Arizona are Columbian mammoths. Columbian mammoths stood up to 13 feet (4 meters) tall at the shoulder and weighed 9.8 tons (10,000 kilograms). They grew tusks up to 16 feet (4.9 meters), the longest in the elephant family
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The decision to include the piece of art/exhibition featuring the Columbian mammoth in the Arizona natural history Museum would have been made by the museum's curatorial staff and possibly in consultation with other experts in the field.