The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
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.
Instant mammoth - just add water!
Maybe the mamouth was in one of algor's favorite movies like the day after tomorrow.
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
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Then we need to raise large herds and develop recipes!
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