2008-05-15 - Tunica Hills , Angola. JAMES MINTON
Recently, high water flushed a bear out of the woods, and now Angola has another significant discovery: a mastodon tooth found by Lt. Col. Joe Norwood on family property in the Tunica Hills near the penitentiary. LSU paleontologist Judith A. Schiebout identified the fossil through e-mailed pictures, and LSU now wants to look at the site, with the landowner’s permission, prison spokeswoman Cathy Fontenot reports. The tooth appears to be about 8 inches long, judging from the pictures.
2008-05-13 - YAKUTSK, Russian Federation. Alex Rodriguez
Every spring, Nikolai Petrov leads a squadron of motorboats along the banks of remote channels and rivers in northern Siberia, waiting for the split second when chunks of thawing tundra plunge into the water. If luck is on Petrov's side, he will see shards of mammoth fossils protruding from the bank. He doesn't want the femurs, pelvises or shoulder blades, just the tusks. Here in the Siberian province of Yakutia, mammoth tusks are big business—a trove thousands of years old meant not for the w...
2008-04-19 - Lima, United States. EDWARD HUSAR
Thousands of years ago, the seed of a mystery was planted when a hulking, furry creature the size of a modern-day elephant keeled over and died along a bluff in the northwest corner of Adams County. The carcass of this giant mastodon, a prehistoric species that roamed Illinois until about 11,000 years ago, eventually disappeared, covered by the erosive forces of nature and the sands of time. Then one day in 1957, a farmer named Arthur Andrew was walking along the bluff, several miles southeast o...
2008-04-10 - Lincoln, United States.
Morrill hall has the largest mounted mammoth in the world and one of the world's premiere collections of fossil elephants. And like those elephants that never forget, folks will remember their visit here. Nebraska was once home to mammoths and a rich natural history. This week's One Tank Trip takes us to Morrill Hall on the campus of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. "We have something amazing around every corner here at Morrill Hall. People will see where we came from and where we're going ...
2008-04-10 - Moscow, Russian Federation.
Russian scientists say they have obtained the most detailed pictures so far of the insides of a prehistoric animal, with the help of a baby mammoth called Lyuba found immaculately preserved in the Russian Arctic. The mammoth is named after the wife of the hunter who found her last year. The body was shipped back to Russia in February from Japan, where it was studied using computer tomography in a process similar to one doctors use to scan patients.
2008-03-28 - Lima, Peru. Victoria Jaggard
A suspicious package found on a bus in Peru turned out to contain a mysterious and massive animal jawbone, officials announced on Tuesday. Police who investigated the bus's cargo hold said they noticed the package because it had no identifying marks and was oddly heavy. "They were worried about its weight, opened it, and found the fossil," Kleber Jimenez, a local police officer, told the Reuters news service. The remains most likely belonged to a proboscidean, or elephant relative.
2008-03-19 - Chongqing, United States.
Among the victims of a long ago era of climate change was the Stegodon Orientalis. It was a saber-toothed elephant that roamed Asia and Africa during the mid-Pleistocene Period. A complete skeleton of this long extinct species has been found in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. Soon after the discovery last year, the remains proved to be the largest skeleton of the species ever found.
2008-03-12 - Sequim, United States. Avani Nadkarni
Helen Haller Elementary fifth-graders Austin Allen, Bailey Boyce and Rory Roberts crowded around a giant white mammoth tusk, a piece of ivory that is more than double their height, seven times their weight and about a thousand times their age. “That’s awesome!” Allen exclaimed, petting the fossil. The tusk was found almost exactly four years ago, when Rick and Linda Guenthner were taking a mid-January stroll on Port Williams beach with their Brittany spaniel, Belle. Belle spotted the strip...
2008-03-11 - Sebastopol, United States. Steve Rubenstein
Nancy Fiddler is cleaning out her garage in Sebastopol these days, which is the thing to do if your garage has a mastodon in it. Not just any mastodon, but a full-grown one. It's among the finest examples of a fossilized mastodon in North America, and certainly the finest example of one in a Sebastopol garage. Fiddler wants it gone. It's been in the family for 11 years, and that's long enough for the relationship to have run its course. "This," she said, pointing to the creature that fills half ...
2008-03-08 - San Fransisco, United States.
The ancient fossilized remains of the famous Rustler Ranch Mastodon are currently up for auction. The 1997 discovery in California of the mastodon (a relative of the woolly mammoth as well as the African elephant) was heralded around the country as a rare opportunity for paleontologists to study an early example of this near-complete, pre-historic fossil. So unique was this unearthing that the Oakland Museum of California and its Chief Curator Tom Stellar had it excavated and put on exhibition a...
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