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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: SoCal Pubbie

That must have been quite an experience!!!!

Mammoths are fascinating.


61 posted on 07/10/2007 11:28:54 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ah. Amazing what they can do with today’s technology....*snirt*


62 posted on 07/10/2007 12:19:28 PM PDT by Monkey Face ("Equal opportunity" means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. ~~ L J Pete)
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To: Monkey Face

...and I wuz only usin’ *yesterday’s* technology. Imagine how neat it could have been...


63 posted on 07/10/2007 12:22:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, July 10, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Yah...it coulda been LIFE-like! (Ohno! The inSANity!)


64 posted on 07/10/2007 12:25:30 PM PDT by Monkey Face ("Equal opportunity" means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. ~~ L J Pete)
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To: Robe

Maybe she died after someone sheared her for a fur coat.


65 posted on 07/10/2007 12:51:44 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

That might be why they called them wooly...


66 posted on 07/10/2007 12:54:36 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: null and void
" I’d be interested to know if anyone else has ever seen anything similar in the published literature?"

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.

67 posted on 07/10/2007 12:57:56 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: Old Professer
I don’t make ‘up, paly.
68 posted on 07/10/2007 1:11:16 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: SoCal Pubbie

That SHOULD have read:

I don’t make ‘em up, paly!


69 posted on 07/10/2007 1:11:58 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: blam

Thanks! I figured if anyone on FR knew, it would be you...


70 posted on 07/10/2007 1:57:08 PM PDT by null and void (...and there'd be world peace and fuzzy puppies for everyone. And then we could eat them...)
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To: Getready

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...


71 posted on 07/10/2007 3:43:55 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair dinkum!)
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To: SunkenCiv

The Year of the Mammoth on FR.


72 posted on 07/10/2007 4:45:07 PM PDT by wildbill
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To: djf

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.


73 posted on 07/10/2007 5:47:42 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: TigerLikesRooster

It’s an amazing scientific discovery and all these guys can think of is ‘fire up the barbecue!’ LOL


74 posted on 07/10/2007 6:23:17 PM PDT by DancesWithCats
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To: trisham
That’s pretty amazing, but it looks like a modern elephant to me.

I thought the same thing.

75 posted on 07/11/2007 4:15:36 AM PDT by Dustbunny (The BIBLE - Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

A dead baby Mammoth?

Bush’s fault.


76 posted on 07/11/2007 4:16:40 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (The FairTax and the North American Union are mutually exclusive.)
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To: wildbill

:’)


77 posted on 07/11/2007 12:27:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, July 10, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Fred Nerks
EVERYONE THAT READS THIS SHOULD READ THE BOOK AT THE END OF THIS LINK. IT BREAKS DOWN ALL OF THE MAMMOTHS FOUND, HOW exactly THEY DIED, AND SEVERAL OTHER POINTS THAT ARE VERY COMPELLING...

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.

78 posted on 07/11/2007 6:59:25 PM PDT by DavemeisterP
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Poor freeze dried lil thing..Remarkable preservation.


79 posted on 07/11/2007 7:00:28 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Taz Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Awwwwwwwww....how cute is that?


80 posted on 07/11/2007 8:24:49 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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