Have You Seen This? Mammoth fans make case for NHL name with real remains found in Utah

NEOLITHIC ERA — The answer to Utah's NHL team name conundrum may have been under our very feet this entire time. The Utah Hockey Club announced Wednesday that it has narrowed down the options for its permanent team name to Mammoth, Hockey Club and Wasatch. The one stalwart among those has been Mammoth, which competed with the original favorite, Yeti, in the early voting stages. Utah Governor Spencer Cox took to social media to share some historical information that could prove relevant in swaying voters toward the extinct elephant. "Did you know that one of the best preserved Columbian Mammoths ever discovered was in central Utah," Cox posted on social media platform X. "And a complete life-size replica exists in my hometown's museum in Fairview?" According to the U.S. Forest Service website, the 10,000-year-old remains were discovered in 1988 when a dozer operator working on a construction site in the Manti-La Sal National Forest accidentally unearthed the front leg bone and a section of tusk. The site adds that you can visit the discovery site on Utah state Route 31 and see models of the skeleton at the Fairview Museum of History and Art or the USU-CEU Prehistoric Museum in Price. Voting on the team name is currently underway on iPads throughout the Delta Center during Utah Hockey Club home games through Tuesday, Feb. 4.