interesting
Cool stuff.
The mastodons they found in Russia in ice several years back had enough tissue left they were talking about doing some sort of Jurrasic Park creation with a modern day elephant...or something to that affect.
Anyone know more information regarding this? They seemed very serious about it at the time but sure how viable it is.
Helen Thomas’ birthplace?
Neato to be the one finding something like this.
Quick, check the old family homestead papers!
Can the mastadons open a casino yet?
A possible reason. A glacial lake might have substantial glacial silt surrounding it, and that kind of silt can be deadly dangerous to walk on.
The most dangerous kind of glacial silt is in a tidewater area, as it seems solid to walk on, but when the tide comes in, it comes in underneath you. Suddenly the ground turns to sandy chocolate pudding and you drop down several feet. You are held there with incredible suction as the water continues to come in, and you drown. There is a lot of it around Anchorage, Alaska, and they have to give out warnings at frequent intervals not to walk on the silt.
But in this case, with no tide, it could be like sand bars, some of which are solid, and some are not. And you only have to hit a bad one once. It is unlikely that even a mastodon could escape from that.
It would be very deceptive, because birds and light animals might be able to cross over it easily.
I thought dozers were operated not driven...
I run into all sorts of old stuff when I’m dozing. Also when I have my beer goggles on.
I don’t care how damn old they are. The lift ticket is the same damn price and that’s final.
So not only did Jefferson own and oppress black slaves to his eternal disgrace, he was OWNING AND OPPRESSING GROUND SLOTHS AS WELL! That bastard! How can we honor someone who owned and oppressed ground sloths?
IBTHTP.
Great thread! Haven’t chuckled this much in a while.
Well, after reading the whole article then running off to track down several other articles re this find, no one has asked the obvious question yet about how this much sediment, silt and clay washed into this little bowl in the ground fast enough to cover these critters. A glacial lake maybe broke through an ice dam sending a deluge along with the critters into the bowl? Just seems odd that “grazers” would be tooling around at 9,000 feet. But whadda I know???
What a phenomenal story! Thank you so much!
With the right sort of development and guidance by the University and the State out there, this could turn into an educational goldmine for the State. Imagine the tourists that will fly out there with their kids to show them the mastodon and other Pleistocene relics in situ - all of them together in the same site.
What an amazing find.
