Posted on 10/04/2009 4:26:37 PM PDT by Steelfish
October 5, 2009
Baby Mammoth Yields Secrets After 40,000 Years In Siberian Tundra [Pic in URL]
Sam Lister
A baby woolly mammoth that died after being sucked into a muddy river bed 40,000 years ago has revealed more prehistoric secrets of how the species survived in its icy habitat.
The mammoth, known as Lyuba, was about a month old when she died in the Siberian tundra, where she remained until she was discovered by reindeer herders three years ago. Her body was so well preserved in the permafrost that her stomach retained traces of her mother’s milk, and scientists identified sediment in her mouth, trunk and throat — suggesting that she suffocated while struggling to free herself from the mud.
The mammoth has taught researchers much about the species that they had been unable to glean from fossils and other less well-preserved finds, including how brown fat cells on the humped back of the head helped to maintain body temperature.
The calf, found in the Arctic Yamal peninsula of Russia, weighed about 110lb, and was about the size of a large dog.
Announcing the start of a tour by Lyuba of palaeontology museums, starting at The Field Museum in Chicago next year and ending at the Natural History Museum in 2014, scientists said that she could provide DNA.
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I'd like to know how they came up with the 40,000 year number.
Wierd, I just popped on FR for a while right in the middle of watching Ice Age with my kids.
Not unless a large dog looks like the thing in post 6.
I guess you don't understand.
All these people who tell us all that stuff about dinosaurs and evolution base all of their ideas upon the fossils they observe. My point is that they haven't a clue about fossils or fossilization so all of those ideas are just empty nonsense.
ML/NJ
Probably rounded up from 39,932 years.
He’s embalmed, rested, and ready! Nixon in 2012!
they act like this is such an amazing find but i had heard years ago there were plenty of these finds in the tundra regions. this is just one set of references regarding them.
http://www.christiancourier.com/articles/848-the-woolly-mammoth-and-the-ice-age
“Bring the species back from extinction so to speak?”
Although an interesting thought.. why should they bring it back? It did not survive it’s first chance in the mix.
“Bring the species back from extinction so to speak?”
The tag on the collar around it’s neck. Also had the owners name and phone #.
Ovaries?
Eggs?
I want one!!
Course, that would be one hell of a pooper scooper you’d have to haul around with ya, eh? Like a backhoe!
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