Mammoth Skeleton Found In Siberia

BBC ^ | 5-23-2006 | James Rodgers

[Condor51]

***What's the difference between a MAMMOTH and a MASTODON?.........***

• Mammoth; any of various large, hairy, extinct elephants of the genus Mammuthus, especially the woolly mammoth.
• Mastodon; Any of several very large, extinct proboscidian mammals of the genus Mammut (sometimes Mastodon), resembling the elephant but having molar teeth of a different structure.

  (differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth)

[Almagest]

<< No, they're not different. They're both dead............. >>




....Jim.

[A.Hun]

Mastodon

Mammoth

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The mammoth's backbone, skull, teeth and tusks all survived intact.

Any frozen flesh? Anything they can recover DNA from? I demand a cloned mammoth in my lifetime!

[Junior]

In death not all critters are equal:

Mammoth
Mastodon

[VOA]

"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]

It sounds from the article like these are bones not fossils. I guess I wonder why no fossilization occurred (if it didn't), as these seem like the perfect conditions for it.

ML/NJ

[tumblindice]

What made the Hottentot so hot?
And what makes the mammoth guard his tusks,
in the misty mists and dusky dusk?

"Courage" woof!

[kinghorse]

Mastadons arer Mammoths living in Miami.

[Centurion2000]

Mammoths have a double curve in their tusks. Mastodons have single curved tusks. Mammoths were also bigger

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.

[VRWCmember]

What's the differenc between a MAMMOTH and a MASTODON?.........

About $400 a week. Oh wait, that's the difference between a nanny and an au pair.

[avile]

clone it

[R W Reactionairy]

Urban legend time?

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?

[Ichneumon]

Hey, what ever happened to the real one they found frozen in the mud? The one with fur, flesh and all?

It was delicious.

[blam]

"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.]"

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.

[blam]

A number of references to the stories of eating mammoth meat here.

[R W Reactionairy]

Thanks. In the words of the caveman on the insurance commercial: "I'll have the duck with the mango salsa." :-)

[jordan8]

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn mentions finds of frozen ancient animals that the Soviet press reported as being eaten by locals. He said that all former prisoners understood instantly upon reading these accounts that the "locals" who ate this ancient flesh were actually Zeks, starving prisoners in the gulag.

[SunkenCiv]

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