Posted on 11/09/2014 2:17:15 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Many large charismatic mammals went extinct at the end of the Ice Age (approx 11,000 years ago), including the Steppe bison, Bison priscus. A recent find in Eastern Siberia has uncovered one of these bison, literally, frozen in time.
The most complete frozen mummy of the Steppe bison yet known, dated to 9,300 years before present, was recently uncovered in the Yana-Indigirka Lowland and a necropsy was performed to learn about how this animal lived and died at the end of the Ice Age. The Yukagir bison mummy, as it is named, has a complete brain, heart, blood vessels and digestive system, although some organs have shrunk significantly over time. The necropsy of this unique mummy showed a relatively normal anatomy with no obvious cause of death. However, the lack of fat around abdomen of the animal makes researchers think that the animal may have died from starvation...
...one project scientist, Olga Potapova, is from the Mammoth Site of Hot Springs in South Dakota, USA, she tells us, "The Yukagir bison mummy became the third find out of four now known complete mummies of this species discovered in the world, and one out of two adult specimens that are being kept preserved with internal organs and stored in frozen conditions", making this find one of high importance...
Frozen bison and mammoth mummies are changing the way we think about paleontology because of the large amount of information that can be ascertained from each specimen, with new scientific methods and approaches that became available within the last decade.
(Excerpt) Read more at eurekalert.org ...
“Charismatic”? Did i read that right?
Photogenic didn’t seem appropriate, so... ;’)
LOL!
**although some organs have shrunk significantly over time**
Well if cold water can cause shrinkage think about what being frozen can do to “some organs.”
He was in the pool! He was in the pool!
Usually, ‘Charismatic’ means you’re the life of the party, you know, the way Hillary thinks she is. Maybe these were some really ‘Bichon’ Bison.
Do things like that have preserved DNA of any ‘use’? Could be interesting.
OK...I did a little research (very little! LOL).
A “Charismatic Mammal” is a beast that people LIKE, and so is useful in promoting tourism, conservation, etc.
Examples would be Lions, Tigers, leopards, Elephants, Bears, etc.
Examples of non-charismatics would be poisonous snakes, maggots, rats, hyenas, dingos, bats, cockroaches, pigeons, jellyfish, and lice.
So the author of this article wants to lead me to believe some people went to all the trouble of mummifying an entire bison? Why? [Thog want know—you gonna eat that?] Did they wrap it up like King Tut? Or did it just keel over from starvation and become preserved in place through freezing? Journalists...
“Bison Frisee’ “! LOL!
he wasn’t officially mummified, using the traditional 90 day Anubus method.
He was probably just “buried in his jammies”.
talk about aged meat.....
Actually Bison like this were found frozen at different
times by the inmates of the Stalinist Gulags, however
nothing was learned from them because they were
immediately devoured by the discoverers.
Tells you something about the conditions eh.
And Democrats
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