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Complete 9,000-year-old frozen bison mummy found in Siberia
EurekAlert! ^ | November 06, 2014 | Anthony Friscia

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at eurekalert.org ...


TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: bison; godsgravesglyphs; huntergatherers; mummies; siberia; yukagir
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Complete 9,000-year-old frozen bison mummy found in Siberia

1 posted on 11/09/2014 2:17:15 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

2 posted on 11/09/2014 2:18:03 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Charismatic”? Did i read that right?


3 posted on 11/09/2014 2:18:20 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: left that other site

Photogenic didn’t seem appropriate, so... ;’)


4 posted on 11/09/2014 2:19:07 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: SunkenCiv

LOL!


5 posted on 11/09/2014 2:20:29 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: SunkenCiv; Larry Lucido; F15Eagle

**although some organs have shrunk significantly over time**

Well if cold water can cause shrinkage think about what being frozen can do to “some organs.”


6 posted on 11/09/2014 2:20:46 PM PST by Gamecock (USA, Ret. 27 years.)
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To: Gamecock

He was in the pool! He was in the pool!


7 posted on 11/09/2014 2:22:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: left that other site

Usually, ‘Charismatic’ means you’re the life of the party, you know, the way Hillary thinks she is. Maybe these were some really ‘Bichon’ Bison.


8 posted on 11/09/2014 2:23:34 PM PST by lee martell
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To: SunkenCiv

Do things like that have preserved DNA of any ‘use’? Could be interesting.


9 posted on 11/09/2014 2:24:05 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: SunkenCiv

OK...I did a little research (very little! LOL).

A “Charismatic Mammal” is a beast that people LIKE, and so is useful in promoting tourism, conservation, etc.

Examples would be Lions, Tigers, leopards, Elephants, Bears, etc.

Examples of non-charismatics would be poisonous snakes, maggots, rats, hyenas, dingos, bats, cockroaches, pigeons, jellyfish, and lice.


10 posted on 11/09/2014 2:26:32 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: SunkenCiv

So the author of this article wants to lead me to believe some people went to all the trouble of mummifying an entire bison? Why? [Thog want know—you gonna eat that?] Did they wrap it up like King Tut? Or did it just keel over from starvation and become preserved in place through freezing? Journalists...


11 posted on 11/09/2014 2:27:27 PM PST by W. (We won. Get over it! Or not--because we won! Cry me another river!)
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To: lee martell

“Bison Frisee’ “! LOL!


12 posted on 11/09/2014 2:27:28 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: SunkenCiv

13 posted on 11/09/2014 2:27:50 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: W.

he wasn’t officially mummified, using the traditional 90 day Anubus method.

He was probably just “buried in his jammies”.


14 posted on 11/09/2014 2:28:43 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: SunkenCiv
When's dinner?


15 posted on 11/09/2014 2:29:43 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

talk about aged meat.....


16 posted on 11/09/2014 2:33:17 PM PST by slapshot (Z)
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To: central_va
It's a little stringy.


17 posted on 11/09/2014 2:34:45 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: central_va

Actually Bison like this were found frozen at different
times by the inmates of the Stalinist Gulags, however
nothing was learned from them because they were
immediately devoured by the discoverers.

Tells you something about the conditions eh.


18 posted on 11/09/2014 2:34:57 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: left that other site

Large charismatic mammals

19 posted on 11/09/2014 2:35:37 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Just kiddin')
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Examples of non-charismatics would be poisonous snakes, maggots, rats, hyenas, dingos, bats, cockroaches, pigeons, jellyfish, and lice.

And Democrats

20 posted on 11/09/2014 2:39:25 PM PST by digger48
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