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Mastodon fossil remains discovered in Taichung

2007-08-24 - Taipei, Taiwan.

Fossil remains of a newborn mastodon were recently discovered in the dry riverbed of Dajia River near Shih-kang village in Taichung County, sources at the Taichung Mountainview Community University reported yesterday. They also noted that the discovery marks the first time that local archaeologists have found proof that Taiwan was once home to the prehistoric elephant species, which is estimated to have existed from about 28 million years ago to 10,000 years ago.


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Fisherman Donates Mastodon Tusk To Maine State Museum

2007-08-16 - Augusta, United States. Rhonda Erskine

Thursday, a Cushing fisherman donated the mastodon tusk he found while dragging for scallops on Georges Bank to the Maine State Museum. Tim Winchenbach uncovered the tusk back in January. The tusk is a very rare find, and likely dates back more than 13,000 years. The museum has to do a lot of work to preserve it. The tusk is dark in color because of all the years it spent in salt water. It will be slowly dried out, so it doesn't fall apart, and then preserved.


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Greek mastodon find spectacular

The tusks were well preserved (Photo: Prof Evangelia Tsoukala, 2007)

2007-07-24 - Grevena, Greece.

The remains of a prehistoric mastodon have been found in northern Greece, including intact long tusks. A Dutch scientist at the site, Dick Mol, says the find near Grevena should help explain why mastodons died out in Europe two to three million years ago. The mastodon's tusks measure 5m (16.5ft) and 4m, Mr Mol told the BBC. They are the longest tusks ever found on a prehistoric elephant-like animal. "It is spectacular," Mr Mol said.


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Oldest DNA ever decoded. Science makes DNA breakthrough in the tooth of a mastodon. A fossilised tooth found in a swamp has allowed scientists to work out the DNA of a primitive North American elephant.

2007-07-22 - London, United Kingdom. Will Iredale

Scientists have worked out part of the genetic structure of the mastodon, a giant primitive elephant, after finding DNA preserved in the fossilised tooth of a beast that died up to 130,000 years ago. The creature is thought to have roamed the forests and plains of North America before dying and sinking into a swamp that preserved its tissues. The information obtained has shed new light on the ancestry of mastodons and mammoths, both now extinct, as well as on the origins of the three surviving e...


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The first mastodon skeleton

2007-07-16 - Montgomery, United States. Shaniquah Gabino, Times Herald-Record

Did you know that the first mastodon skeleton was found in Montgomery? The rib bones were found in 1793 and the Montgomery Mastodon excavation took place in 1801. There were two sites where mastodon skeletons were found: on Route 17K across from Valley Central School and in Coldenham. Joseph Devine, author of “The Montgomery Mastodon” (January 2007) knows a lot about this prehistoric mammal. His book has been distributed to fourth-grade students in the Valley Central School District.


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What Can a Baby Mammoth Teach Us? Cloning the mammoth is not a possibility, says researcher Michael Hofreiter from the German Max Planck Institute.

Cloning the mammoth is not a possibility, says researcher Michael Hofreiter from the German Max Planck Institute. But one can watch evolution in progress by examining enough mammoth carcasses.

2007-07-16 - Leipzig, Germany. Anwen Roberts

Last week, scientists announced the discovery of an almost perfectly preserved baby mammoth in the permafrost of Siberia. SPIEGEL spoke to evolution scientist Michael Hofreiter from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig about what the young female means for science. Researchers are falling all over themselves to examine the intact baby mammoth found in the permafrost of Siberia. Will scientists be able to clone it? Hofreiter: Cloning a mammoth isn't possible!


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Mammoth may find home in Santa Barbara. If Moorpark approves, the fossilized remains would go to the Museum of Natural History

2007-07-14 - Santa Barbara, United States. Gregory W. Griggs

Moorpark officials may have found a final resting place for the skeleton of a fossilized mammoth that roamed the area up to 1 million years ago. If the City Council approves the plan next week, the skeletal pieces will be donated to the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Trevor J. Lindsey, the paleontologist who discovered the mammoth at the housing site, said this is probably the first time such fossils have been discovered in Moorpark.


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Baby mammoth discovery unveiled

The mammoth

2007-07-10 - Siberia, Russian Federation. Paul Rincon

A baby mammoth unearthed in the permafrost of north-west Siberia could be the best preserved specimen of its type, scientists have said. The six-month-old female calf was discovered on the Yamal peninsula of Russia and is thought to have died 10,000 years ago. The frozen carcass is to be sent to Japan for detailed study.


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Russia to send frozen fossil of mammoth calf for studies

2007-07-07 - Moscow, Russian Federation.

A frozen mammoth found recently in Russia in unprecedented good condition is set to be sent to a Japanese university for examination, several experts said Friday. The mammoth, thought to be a 6-month-old female, was found in the best state of preservation among all frozen mammoths ever discovered, the experts said. 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.


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Mastodon neighbor"s bones go on display

2007-07-06 - , United States.

Mastodon bones uncovered by the surprised crew of Dan's Excavating exactly one year ago near Adams Road and M-59 are returning home Saturday for a special exhibit. The bones are estimated to be those of a mastodon that roamed Oakland County about 12,360 years ago. Known to the Rochester Hills Museum staff as the Adams Road Mastodon, the now-extinct animal is a distant cousin of the elephant, which existed for at least 3.75 million years before dying off 10,000 to 11,000 years ago.


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