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discovery of MAMMOTH proportions!. . .baby mammoth found well preserved **video to watch**. . . - NewtonMP2100 - 04-21-2009
. . .National Geographic special airing this Sunday. . .
Baby mammoth Lyuba, pristinely preserved, offers scientists rare look into mysteries of Ice Age
. . .She may be 40,000 years old, but an amazingly well-preserved baby mammoth is in great shape for her age, bringing scientists closer to solving some of the mysteries of the Ice Age.
Lyuba, who was discovered in 2007 in the Russian Artic, was about one-month old when she fell victim to a mudslide or drowned according to National Geographic, which will air a special about her, "Waking the Baby Mammoth," on Sunday April 26 at 9 p.m.
The clay-like substance that likely suffocated her also "pickled" her, preserving the little mammoth in a nearly pristine state, USAToday.com reported.
Her skin and organs are intact, and scientists were able to identify milk from her mother in her stomach.
"We are learning more about what [mammoths] ate and how to recognize animals that are healthy versus stressed," Daniel Fisher, a member of the research team, told National Geographic.
While previously discovered mammoth specimens, which are less well-preserved than Lyuba, appeared to be starving, Lyuba was the picture of health.
By examining Lyuba's teeth, researchers hope to gain insight into what caused Ice Age mammals, including the mammoths, to suddenly vanish around 10,000 years ago, at the end of the Pleistocene era.
"This quirky line of investigation is a tool by which we'll be able to solve the late Pleistocene extinction," Fisher told National Geographic. "We'll be able to distinguish between the two main competitors: climate change and hunting.". .
preserved. . .
Re: of MAMMOTH proportions!. . .video of baby mammoth found. . . - Racer X - 04-21-2009
so, who was alive as this baby mammoth was being born, and where did Ogg get the video camera, and better yet, how did he charge the batteries and edit the tape?
Re: discovery of MAMMOTH proportions!. . .baby mammoth found well preserved **video to watch**. . . - pinkoos - 04-21-2009
Absolutely amazing. Thank you for sharing that.
Re: discovery of MAMMOTH proportions!. . .baby mammoth found well preserved **video to watch**. . . - decay - 04-21-2009
but we've been taught* the Earth is only 6,000 years old!
*The Bible
Re: discovery of MAMMOTH proportions!. . .baby mammoth found well preserved **video to watch**. . . - Don Kiyoti - 04-21-2009
Pretty cool! They coulda hooked up the defib paddles and started her back up! Well, until they drilled that hole, anyways.
Re: discovery of MAMMOTH proportions!. . .baby mammoth found well preserved **video to watch**. . . - OWC Jamie - 04-21-2009
Tastes like bison ?
Re: discovery of MAMMOTH proportions!. . .baby mammoth found well preserved **video to watch**. . . - motopsyco - 04-21-2009
Elephunk by Baby Mammoth:
http://www.myspace.com/babymammoth
Cheers!
Re: discovery of MAMMOTH proportions!. . .baby mammoth found well preserved **video to watch**. . . - ka jowct - 04-22-2009
I hope it's better than the other shows about prehistoric life that I've seen in the past couple of years. They've been almost uniformly awful: really interesting subject matter dumbed down with lots of repetition and hype, suggesting that their target audience is extremely ignorant people with short attention spans.