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.
That must have been quite an experience!!!!
Mammoths are fascinating.
Ah. Amazing what they can do with today’s technology....*snirt*
...and I wuz only usin’ *yesterday’s* technology. Imagine how neat it could have been...
Yah...it coulda been LIFE-like! (Ohno! The inSANity!)
Maybe she died after someone sheared her for a fur coat.
That might be why they called them wooly...
Yes, I have.
Dr J M Adovasio in his book The First Americans proposes just such a scenario for Humans at Meadowcroft 16,000 years ago. His critics said with that early date the glaciers would have been to close for humans to have survived there.
Professor Stephan Oppenheimer's DNA study places Modern Humans At Meadowcroft 25,000 years ago.
That SHOULD have read:
I don’t make ‘em up, paly!
Thanks! I figured if anyone on FR knew, it would be you...
http://www.bearfabrique.org/Catastrophism/sauropods/mammoth.html
The problem of Mammoths
excerpt:
Russian expeditions to Siberia and the northern islands of the Arctic Ocean began in the latter half of the eighteenth cen- tury, and with the discovery of these large mounds of animal bones, most prominently the tusks of mammoths and other herbivores, franchises were given to enterprising people who could harvest the ivory for the world market. Liakoff seems to have been the first iniportant ivory trader and explorer in the late eighteenth century. After his death the Russian govern- ment gave a monopo~ to a businessman in Yakutsk who sent his agent, Sannikofi, to explore the islands and locate additional sources of ivory. Sannikoff’s discoveries of more islands and his reports on the animal remains found there are the best firsthand accounts of the Siberian animal graveyards.
Hedenstrom explored the area in 1809 and reported back on the richness of the ivory tusks. Sannikoff discovered the island of Kotelnoi, which is apparently the richest single location, in 1811. Finally, the czar decided to send an official expedition and from 1820 to 1823, Admiral Ferdinand Wrangell, then a young naval lieutenant, did a reasonably complete survey of the area. Since these expeditions and explorations were inspired by commercial interests and not scientific curiosity; the reports are entirely objective with no ideological or doctrinal bias to slant the interpretation of the finds.
Around the turn of the century interest in the Siberian is- lands seems to have increased, whether as a result of the few Christian fundamentalists who were not reconciled to evolu- tion frantically searching for tangible proof of Noah’s flood, or as part of the leisure activities of the English gendemen of the time, we can’t be sure. The definitive article on the Siberian prehistoric animal remains was written by the Reverend D. Gath Whitley and published by the Philosophical Society of Great Britain under the title “The Ivory Islands in the Arctic Ocean.” It drew on older sources, primarily reports of expedi- tions of the ivory traders, and captured the spectacular nature of the discoveries well.
Liakoff discovered, on an island that now bears his name, rather substantial cliffs composed primarily of frozen sand and hundreds of elephant tusks. Later, when the Russian govern- ment sent a surveyor, Chwoinoff, to the island he reported that, with the exception of son~e high mountains, the island seemed to be composed of ice and sand and bones and tusks of ele- phants (or mammoths) which were simply cemented together by the cold.Whitley reported:
Sannikoff explored Kotelnoi, and found that this large
island was full of the bones and teeth of elephants, rhi-
noceroses, and musk-oxen. Having explored the coasts,
Sannikoff determined, as there was nothing but bar-
renness along the shore, to cross the island. He drove in
reindeer sledges up the Czarina River, over the hills,
and down the Sannikoff River, and completed the cir-
cuit of the island.All over the hills in the interior of the
island Sannikoff found the bones and tusks of ele-
phants, rhinoceroses, buffaloes, and horses in such vast
numbers, that he concluded that these animals must
have lived in the island in enormous herds, when the
climate was milder...
The Year of the Mammoth on FR.
A-tweetie! They must’ve been good eating or early man wouldn’t have “et” them all. Can’t wait to sink my teeth into a mammothburger.
It’s an amazing scientific discovery and all these guys can think of is ‘fire up the barbecue!’ LOL
I thought the same thing.
A dead baby Mammoth?
Bush’s fault.
:’)
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/FrozenMammoths6.html
It’s long, but don’t give up, it gets more and more interesting as you read.
One point I want to make is that this scenario, that is explained by the ebook, is a recurring event and will happen at some point again. If you saw the ‘DAY AFTER TOMORROW’ you might think that an ice age happening that fast couldn't’t occur anywhere but Hollywood. After you read this entire link, you may view that movie as being tame and bland compared to the evidence discussed.
Poor freeze dried lil thing..Remarkable preservation.
Awwwwwwwww....how cute is that?
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