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First Images of 12,000-Year-Old Mexican Mammoth Skeleton Emerge
The Telegraph ^
| 25 JUNE 2016
| Harry Yorke
Posted on 06/27/2016 11:45:23 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Paleontologists are in the final stages of extracting the skeleton of a huge mammoth discovered buried two metres underneath a busy street in the Mexican city Tultepec.
New images of the excavation site have revealed the sheer size of the prehistoric animal, which experts believe died between 12,000 and 14,000 years ago in what is now the city's suburb of San Antonio Xahuento.
With a metre-wide skull and tusks spanning more than ten feet, the skeleton belongs to Mammuthus Columbi, a North American mammoth which expects believe grew sixteen feet high and weighed up to 10 tonnes.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; mammoth; mammoths; mastodon; mastodons; mexico; tultepec
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To: SoCal Pubbie
Wholly Mammoth, Batman, I didn’t know that. ;-)
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06/27/2016 2:38:35 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
To: nickcarraway
Did they find any drugs in those tusks?
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posted on
06/27/2016 2:49:06 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
To: TigersEye
There were Pygmy mammoths too, on Catalina island. Kind of like jumbo shrimp.
To: blam
Wow that is well preserved.
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posted on
06/27/2016 5:31:56 PM PDT
by
Crucial
To: SoCal Pubbie
LOL
That’s pretty cool.
Shame what those paleolithic SUVs did to them.
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posted on
06/27/2016 5:38:06 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
To: JimRed
Would you also know the average velocity of an unladen Swallow?
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06/27/2016 5:40:51 PM PDT
by
Crucial
To: umgud; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks umgud.
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posted on
06/28/2016 7:13:34 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/28/2016 8:05:22 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Don't waste your time looking back. You're not going that way. -- Ragnar Lothbrok)
To: nickcarraway
Probably was going to testify against Hillary the following day.
To: JimRed
No. They were much smaller with different tusks.
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06/28/2016 8:26:06 AM PDT
by
ZULU
(Donald Trump is the biggest threat to the New World Order since Barry Goldwater)
To: rdl6989
I think 12,000 to 14,000 could be pre-Clovis. Clovis is about 11,500.
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posted on
06/28/2016 8:27:37 AM PDT
by
ZULU
(Donald Trump is the biggest threat to the New World Order since Barry Goldwater)
To: ZULU
I think 12,000 to 14,000 could be pre-Clovis. Clovis is about 11,500. Thank you.
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posted on
06/28/2016 8:42:34 AM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: Crucial
Would you also know the average velocity of an unladen Swallow?What do you mean? An African or European swallow?
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posted on
06/28/2016 9:02:59 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
To: Monkey Face
Mastodoo or mastodon’t? ;’)
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posted on
06/28/2016 11:14:52 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
To: SunkenCiv
GAH! You choose. My brain died. :o|
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06/28/2016 11:23:16 AM PDT
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Monkey Face
(Don't waste your time looking back. You're not going that way. -- Ragnar Lothbrok)
To: JimRed
“I forgot about the two varieties of mammoth.”
European and African?
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