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Title: 'Pickled' baby mammoth opens window to Ice Age Post by: Allhallowsday on April 21, 2009, 11:00:11 PM 'Pickled' baby mammoth opens window to Ice Age
A baby mammoth dubbed Lyuba had her brief life cut short in a swamp 40,000 years ago, but the well-preserved specimen will provide the world a window into the extinct creatures from the Ice Age. Discovered in 2007, the 1-month-old mammoth died suddenly, probably trapped in mud. "She was doing great, very healthy," says paleontologist Dan Fisher of the University of Michigan, part of the international team researching Lyuba. "She just had this terrible misfortune..." http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2009-04-20-baby-mammoth_N.htm?se=yahoorefer (http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2009-04-20-baby-mammoth_N.htm?se=yahoorefer) Title: Re: 'Pickled' baby mammoth opens window to Ice Age Post by: Raffine on April 23, 2009, 08:25:57 PM Quote 'Pickled' baby mammoth (http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g270/vawolf1974/homer-1.jpg?t=1240536250) Title: Re: 'Pickled' baby mammoth opens window to Ice Age Post by: AndyC on April 24, 2009, 08:46:15 AM They could exhibit it as the world's largest pickled punk.
Title: Re: 'Pickled' baby mammoth opens window to Ice Age Post by: wickednick on April 27, 2009, 06:39:45 AM Why do only mammoths ever get found preserved in ice? Why not some sabor tooths, or giant bears, wooly rihnos, and other ice age mammals?
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