Amercican Bison for comparison:
Shoulder height in the species can range from 152 to 186 cm (60 to 73 in). Weight can range from 318 to 907 kg (701 to 2,000 lb)[11] The heaviest wild bull ever recorded weighed 1,270 kg (2,800 lb).
Posted on 11/09/2014 2:17:15 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Many large charismatic mammals went extinct at the end of the Ice Age (approx 11,000 years ago), including the Steppe bison, Bison priscus. A recent find in Eastern Siberia has uncovered one of these bison, literally, frozen in time.
The most complete frozen mummy of the Steppe bison yet known, dated to 9,300 years before present, was recently uncovered in the Yana-Indigirka Lowland and a necropsy was performed to learn about how this animal lived and died at the end of the Ice Age. The Yukagir bison mummy, as it is named, has a complete brain, heart, blood vessels and digestive system, although some organs have shrunk significantly over time. The necropsy of this unique mummy showed a relatively normal anatomy with no obvious cause of death. However, the lack of fat around abdomen of the animal makes researchers think that the animal may have died from starvation...
...one project scientist, Olga Potapova, is from the Mammoth Site of Hot Springs in South Dakota, USA, she tells us, "The Yukagir bison mummy became the third find out of four now known complete mummies of this species discovered in the world, and one out of two adult specimens that are being kept preserved with internal organs and stored in frozen conditions", making this find one of high importance...
Frozen bison and mammoth mummies are changing the way we think about paleontology because of the large amount of information that can be ascertained from each specimen, with new scientific methods and approaches that became available within the last decade.
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It looks wonderful!
Yum!
Probably tastes like hamburger when ground up.
But I suggest that you do not order your hamburger rare this time.
Amercican Bison for comparison:
Shoulder height in the species can range from 152 to 186 cm (60 to 73 in). Weight can range from 318 to 907 kg (701 to 2,000 lb)[11] The heaviest wild bull ever recorded weighed 1,270 kg (2,800 lb).
Holocene megafauna extinction is a mystery I would like to try to unravel. The best hypothesis i have heard is a massive solar flare
They must have spent a couple of days making sub rolls big enough for one of those. ;’) Thanks PIF.
What you said reminds me, I should make this a Catastrophism ping, if I haven’t already.
No Helen Thomas photos. Time does heal all wounds.
>>Holocene megafauna extinction is a mystery I would like to try to unravel. The best hypothesis i have heard is a massive solar flare
Google “Richard firestone” with “Younger Dryas Event”
Firestone-West supernova hypothesis does not explain the existence of more than a dozen beryllium-10 peaks seen in the polar ice record, eight of which precede the proposed supernova date. The supernova hypothesis likewise does not appear to match the more gradual rate of megafauna extinction than would be explained by a single supernova event.
I understand that when people tried to break out of a gulag, they used the "sandwich" technique. Two hardened inmates would talk a third, less hardier inmate, into escaping with them. That way they had something to eat on their long and arduous escape route.
Just looked that place up. That is way up north. No wonder he fast froze.
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