Reindeer Herder Finds Baby Mammoth in Russia Arctic

Reuters ^ | Aug 19, 2011 | Alissa de Carbonnel

[FrogMom]

A reindeer herder in Russia's Arctic has stumbled on the pre-historic remains of a baby woolly mammoth poking out of the permafrost, local officials said on Friday.

[FrogMom]

Skin and internal organs intact!

[FrogMom]

Ping.

[djf]

How did these things freeze before they rotted or were devoured by something?

I don’t get it. Something is missing.

[Beowulf9]

http://www.mosnews.com/weird/2009/05/20/mammoth/

[umgud]

How did these things freeze before they rotted or were devoured by something?

I don’t get it. Something is missing.

Imagine an asteroid knocking the world off its axis and suddenly these animals found themselves on the new northern regions..... very very cold.

This is just a wild guess, but it makes some sense.

[DJlaysitup]

How did these things freeze before they rotted or were devoured by something? I don’t get it. Something is missing.

Thing is (I suppose) the vast majority of them did either rot or get chomped. Every once in a blue moon you might have warmer temps than usual and one sinks through a soft spot in the perma frost and suffocates - then it freezes up again for thousands of years. Just my guess.

[muawiyah]

There are several ways to come up with a perfectly preserved frozen mammoth. The best is when a baby mammoth wandered off and fell into a mud pit during a brief thaw. Then, he couldn't get out and by morning he was frozen solid.

Another would be where mammoths were peacefully grazing somewhere and the weather and/or climate anomaly called The Younger Dryas came along and flash froze them in place.

There are some other ways ~ Zholzenetsyn reported on one where people found ancient flash frozen critters in what amounted to an ancient riverbed that'd been "uplifted" a bit. They were in an ice "lens".

The people who found them were Zeks so they butchered, cooked and ate the animals. Probably the only meat they'd had in years.

[FrogMom]

Interesting. My article is dated today.

[the invisib1e hand]

Baby Mammoth

Cool! A new oxymoron.

[djf]

There were a whole bunch of mammals that went extinct about the same time, 12-18 thousand years ago or so.

And finding a dead baby mammoth frozen up there proves that it wasn’t man that all the sudden like killed them all off.

Something happened. Something earth-changing.

[Beowulf9]

I just wanted to show the mammoth, for science still, kind of cool!

[FrogMom]

Cool! A new oxymoron.

LOL

[null and void]

How did these things freeze before they rotted or were devoured by something?

I don’t get it. Something is missing.

Here's one way:

The periglacial areas were the best for grazing. The wall of the glacier shielded the area from the bitter north wind, the dazzling vertical ice wall acts as a solar concentrator providing more heat and light for plant growth, the glacial till provides a rich, well conditioned soil, while moraines trap ponds of melt water.

Up near the face of the glacier is the best grazing for a thousand miles!

Until a big chunk breaks off and pounds you into the muck before you even have a chance to swallow that mouthful of marigolds...

[FrogMom]

The Blaze has a link to this article, but they say it’s the second one found. I don’t see that in the Reuters article.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/second-well-preserved-baby-mammoth-found-in-russia/

[mason-dixon]

Ate the pre-historic mammoth!

That reminds me of a great-uncle who lived in New York City, part of the “upper-crust set”. He was member of the “Adventurers Club” and had a clipping from one of their banquets (in the 1960’s?) where the main course was mammoth.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks FrogMom.

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[aruanan]

How did these things freeze before they rotted or were devoured by something?

They, and a whole lot of other things up there, were frozen so quickly that food in their mouths was still fresh.

[PetroniusMaximus]

ping

[hellbender]

There are frozen (or freeze-dried) corpses of climbers all over Mt. Everest, like that of Mallory who disappeared in 1924 and was found well-preserved in 1999.