Posted on 05/23/2006 1:17:52 PM PDT by blam
Mammoth skeleton found in Siberia
By James Rodgers
BBC News, Moscow
It is rare to find mammoth remains in such good condition
Fishermen in Siberia have discovered the complete skeleton of a mammoth - a find which Russian experts have described as very rare.
The remains appeared when flood waters receded in Russia's Krasnoyarsk region.
The mammoth's backbone, skull, teeth and tusks all survived intact. It appears to have died aged about 50.
Mammoths lived in Africa, Europe, Asia and North America between about 1.6 million years ago and 10,000 years ago, during the Pleistocene epoch.
Alexander Kerzhayev, deputy director of the museum in the small town of Novoselovo, says it is the most significant find he can remember.
"It happens very rarely," he told the BBC. "I've been in the area 14 years and this is the first time. The bones are usually spread around over a wide area."
Despite the undoubted significance of this latest find, there is some bad news.
Mr Kerzhayev says his museum has neither the equipment nor the money to dig out the mammoth. At the moment, his best option may be to remove only parts of the skeleton.
Mr Kerzhayev admits it would be a pity just to leave the mammoth where it is, on the shore of a reservoir, but he says: "No one seems to care."
Siberia has historically been a rich source of prehistoric remains.
Some experts are now suggesting that climate change is leading to discoveries which might otherwise have remained hidden in frozen ground.
(differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth)
<< No, they're not different. They're both dead............. >>
....Jim.
"I knew they'd sneak in global warming somewhere........."
What was it they told me in high school English Composition class?
Make sure your final sentence (paragraph) sums up the real point of your composition.
Seeing how this was from the BBC, that last sentence is no suprise...or accident.
ML/NJ
What made the Hottentot so hot?
And what makes the mammoth guard his tusks,
in the misty mists and dusky dusk?
"Courage" woof!
Mastadons arer Mammoths living in Miami.
The mastodons belong to the genus Mastodon, family Mastodontidae; the American mastodon is Mastodon americanus. Mammoths belong to the genus Mammuthus, family Elephantoidea.
Here's another difference
What was the difference between a mastodon and a mammoth? Mammoths had teeth with hard ridges for grinding dry vegetation and grazed in open grasslands. Some reached sixteen feet in height and had enormous curved tusks. Mastodons had blunt coned teeth and probably were browsers on softer plants, such as herbs and leaves. They were found mostly in forested and brushy areas.
About $400 a week. Oh wait, that's the difference between a nanny and an au pair.
clone it
As a kid I remember seeing a Ripley's Believe it or Not panel to the general effect that the Adventurer's or the Explorer's Club [not certain which] had actually served Mammoth meat that had been recovered in edible if not pristine condition from permafrost and transported to NY for a banquet. Truth or urban legend? [Non-hint: I don't know.]
If that report is true, had rare can it be to find bones that have not been scattered?
It was delicious.
I heard/read a similar tale. Except it was an English archaeologist/explorer who served the mammoth meat to his peers as he revealed the discovery.
Don't know if it's true or not.
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