When we first moved into our house I fulfilled a life-long dream. Not the one about riding the bus naked, the one of having my own copies of the Zallinger murals, an artistic inspiration from my youth. I acquired multiple copies of the Time-Life World We Live In books and assembled the murals, gluing them up in our kitchen where they remain to this day. The murals were brought to my attention again today, when I was sharing a link to the Peabody Museum where the originals stand. I found to my astonishment that all the online references to the Age of Mammals mural seem to feature a dynamic auburn mammoth with huge curling tusks. This one:
Here is the same section of the mural, or A mural of some kind, as it exists on my wall:
