Frozen baby mammoth headed to Japan
Researchers at Japan’s Jikei University will soon be checking the mailbox for a cool package from Siberia — the recently discovered frozen body of an ancient baby mammoth. The nearly complete body of the female calf, said to be one of the best-preserved specimens of frozen mammoth ever discovered, is estimated to have been less than one year old before it was preserved in ice about 10,000 years ago.
According to the Russian Tass news agency, a reindeer herder stumbled upon the 130 cm (4 ft 3 in) tall, 50 kg (110 lbs) frozen mammoth in May in an area of permafrost in northwestern Siberia, near the Yuribey River on the Yamal Peninsula, which extends into the Kara Sea. The mammoth, whose trunk and eyes remain intact and which still has some fur on its body, was shown to an international panel of experts that convened on July 5 in the town of Salekhard, near the discovery site.
Preparations are now being made to ship the baby mammoth to Jikei University School of Medicine, where researchers will use advanced computed tomography (CT) scanners to obtain three-dimensional images of its internal organs. “This is the first opportunity for anyone to perform an analysis on a complete mammoth body,” says Jikei University professor Naoki Suzuki, “and it should provide a more complete picture of its anatomy and how it lived.”
[Source: Yomiuri]
Thats not a baby Mammoth, it’s a Bigfoot with neurofibromatosis type I.
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Oh my gawd! Giantest Giant squid has washed up on Aussie beach.
Look: http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/richardberry/index.php/heraldsun/comments/when_giant_squids_invade1/
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that is soooo sad looking!
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this is such a horrible looking thing…i cant believe people actually froze a baby elephant!! that poor poor thing..that ain right we shouldnt be allowed to do this.
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Froze an elephant? Did you even read the article? It’s a Mammoth!!! No one froze it, it froze itself!!!! Figuratively speaking. Anyway, very interesting.
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it is an elephant not a mammoth don’t you think a baby mammoth would be bigger than the normal baby elephant since the mammoth was suppose to be this huge creature?
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So how exactly does an animal get preserved in ice with such little decay? It appears that the animal was quickly buried. And if it is so near the surface, maybe not so long ago? Could maybe the Flood of the Bible explain this?
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re.remarks from tidiebug and mely mel:
Are you both really as stupid as this?.Yes it really is a Mammoth(I’m pretty sure the scientists know alot more than you,tudiebug on this subject and no,mely mel,no one froze it deliberatley.It died during the ice age which,in simple terms for your small brain,was a very long time ago.
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Excuse me? Since when did Tudiebug say she had more knowledge of the subject of this Frozen mammoth than a scientist? Tudiebug was just pointing out the fact that this is a mammoth not an elephant.
‘Smarter than you?’ oh please. If you really want to prove your intelligence you should at least use proper punctuation and spell a lot correctly.
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wow!
you guys are really being lame!
but i agree with the girl who sticks up for tudiebug
but smarter than you
really has a point though
what kind of a dumbass would
read an article about
things preserved in ice
and then….
say we are wrong for freezing it?
wow.
ignorance is never funny but
thats about as close as you’ll get to it “]
-i really am smarter than you “]
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you guys don’t have to fight about this let’s just wait for news about this… after all its been studied in japan… ^_^ the scientist know there stuff… ^_^
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I like dis website becz m also relatd to bio.sci.nd m intrsd in it.
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wtf mates
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That is not cool! Froze a fish, but not a BABY ELEPHANT! That’s cruel! Although, it’s been dead for 10,000 years, BUT STILL!!! There is a rule about this 10,000 years ago! This is what it said: “DO NOT FREEZE MAMMOTH. THESE ARE ONE OF THE WORLDS MOST TREASURED ANIMALS, SO PLEASE SAVE THEM! THANK YOU.” See what that says? So ya’ll that lived 10,000 years ago should be ashamed of yourselves. [From Nature Girl]
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I never said i was smarter, but how do you know for a fact it is a mammoth? my guess is unless you were there to witness this blessed event then you don’t really know do you.
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