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Frozen baby mammoth to be sent to Japan for research(near-perfect preservation: photo)
Kyodo News ^ | 07/06/07

Posted on 07/10/2007 1:48:34 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Frozen baby mammoth to be sent to Japan for research

(Kyodo) _ A frozen mammoth found recently in Russia in unprecedented good condition is set to be sent to a Japanese university for examination, several experts told Kyodo News on Friday.

The mammoth, thought to be a six-month-old female, was found in the best state of preservation among all frozen mammoths ever recovered, said the experts.

"The mammoth has no defects except that its tail was bit off," said Alexei Tikhonov, vice director of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. "In terms of its state of preservation, this is the world's most valuable discovery."

The mammoth is expected to be sent to Naoki Suzuki, a professor at Tokyo's Jikei University, for CT scanning in December or later, according to the experts.

The experts, who met Thursday in Salekhard, near the site of the discovery, also decided to send some tissue taken from the mammoth to the Netherlands to help determine when it died.

The mammoth was uncovered in the northern part of western Siberia in May after a reindeer herder found part of its ivory near the Yuribey River. ADVERTISEMENT

Estimated to weigh 50 kilograms and be 120 centimeters in height, it has been named "Lyuba" after the herder's wife.

According to Tikhonov, some Japanese research institutes are equipped with large-scale CT scanners and have examined two mammoths sent from Russia in the past.

Suzuki, speaking from Tokyo, said images taken by the CT scanners would be used to recreate by computer the inside of the well-preserved mammoth, "providing an unprecedented opportunity to obtain anatomically important data."

Mammoths, which first appeared as long as 4.8 million years ago, have been extinct for thousands of years.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events; Russia; Technical
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; japan; jurassicpark; mammoth; mammoths; mammothtoldme; pleistocenepark; preservation; russia; siberia; tlr
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To: Getready

Yes, and how interesting that this very well-preserved mammoth corpse must be “thousands of years old.”


21 posted on 07/10/2007 6:05:21 AM PDT by rimtop56
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Anyone read Clive Clussler’s new book, Polar Shift???..
Part of the plot revolves around two Japanese scientists finding a fully preserved baby woolly mammoth in Siberia..... coinkie dink????
22 posted on 07/10/2007 6:35:50 AM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: 75thOVI; AFPhys; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BenLurkin; Berosus; ...
Looks like they've packed it in a truck. Ironic.
 
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23 posted on 07/10/2007 7:13:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, July 9, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: samtheman
That is so passe'. Good thing I'm too mature to respond.

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24 posted on 07/10/2007 7:15:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, July 9, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; blam; FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; ...
Thanks TigerLikesRooster.

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25 posted on 07/10/2007 7:16:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, July 9, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Looks remarkably good ater 65 million years.

Joke

I know it's only 6000...

JUST KIDDING!!!

26 posted on 07/10/2007 7:19:17 AM PDT by null and void (We can oil drill through miles of rock under sea water, drilling thru inches of glass is a snap...)
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To: leda

The guy named a frozen elephant with a mustache and beard after his wife?

LOLOLOLOLOLOL


27 posted on 07/10/2007 7:22:03 AM PDT by patton (19yrs ... only 4,981yrs to go ;))
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

You are mistaken, it’s an elephant not a RINO.


28 posted on 07/10/2007 7:22:26 AM PDT by stevio ((NRA))
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To: SunkenCiv

So now you’re desecrating ancient monuments?

*excellent!*


29 posted on 07/10/2007 7:27:48 AM PDT by Monkey Face ("Equal opportunity" means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. ~~ L J Pete)
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To: SunkenCiv; TigerLikesRooster

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30 posted on 07/10/2007 7:28:56 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: wagglebee

Moral absolutes?


31 posted on 07/10/2007 7:30:10 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Whoaaa!

Ovaries?
Eggs?

I’m itchin to eat mammoth steaks after I open my mammoth farm!!!


32 posted on 07/10/2007 7:30:13 AM PDT by djf (Bush's legacy: Way more worried about Iraqs borders than our own!!! A once great nation... sad...)
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To: Getready
The periglacial areas were the best for grazing.

The wall of the glacier shielded the area from the bitter north wind, the dazzling vertical 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 1000 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...

33 posted on 07/10/2007 7:32:16 AM PDT by null and void (We can oil drill through miles of rock under sea water, drilling thru inches of glass is a snap...)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

That’s pretty amazing, but it looks like a modern elephant to me.


34 posted on 07/10/2007 7:34:45 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: patton
their marital bliss could be in jeopardy now... ;)
35 posted on 07/10/2007 7:35:39 AM PDT by leda (19yrs ... only 4,981yrs to go ;))
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To: djf
I’m itchin to eat mammoth steaks after I open my mammoth farm!!!

You took the words right out of my mouth. Fred Flintstone, here we come! I've got a cousin who has an exotic animal ranch in West Texas, I'm sure he'd like to try and figure out how to put together a herd of these things.
36 posted on 07/10/2007 8:05:24 AM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: Lurking in Kansas

LOL!


37 posted on 07/10/2007 8:09:50 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: TigerLikesRooster

YUMMM.. Mammoth veal.


38 posted on 07/10/2007 8:22:53 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Happiness is a down sleeping bag)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Aw, she’s kind of cute.

They are neat animals.


39 posted on 07/10/2007 8:28:31 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: trisham

Sure looks like a juvenile elephant to me.


40 posted on 07/10/2007 8:28:56 AM PDT by commonguymd (Move it to the right)
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