2007-04-13 - KENOSHA, United States.
Somewhere under John Hebior's 36 acres of cornfields rest the ancient bones of at least one woolly mammoth. But the 76-year-old retiree doesn't plan to excavate the fossils quite yet. "I'd like to sell this one first,'' he said, gesturing to about 20 boxes containing the carefully packed bones of a second mammoth unearthed from those fields 13 years ago.
2007-04-13 - Mesa, United States.
One of Mesa's newest residents is a 2.4 million-year-old prehistoric mammoth. The huge beast has been transported from Safford to the Mesa Southwest Museum. Once paleontologists haul its giant skull to Mesa, the skeleton will become one of the largest pieces to date at the museum. The Rhynchotherium is an extinct elephant relative with four tusks that died out around the start of the Ice Age.
2007-04-12 - Guadalupe, United States.
Paleontologists on the Central Coast unveil a rare pre-historic find. For the next three months, people can visit the Guadalupe Museum to view the fossil of a mastodon. The preserved remains were found in Arroyo Grande. Right now, a team of scientists continue to search for more remains.
2007-04-03 - Srinagar, India. Bashaarat Masood
Seven years after an archaeological excavation found a 50,000-year-old mammoth skull near Srinagar, the fossil with its large tusk has gone missing. The mammoth skull has been stolen, said Prof Abdul Majeed, who first found the fossil during an excavation in 2000. I was shocked when I visited the site today. Both the skull and the tusk are missing. I fear it has been smuggled out to be sold in the international market, he said.
2007-03-25 - NEW YORK, United States. MARCUS FRANKLIN
The skull of a large carnivorous dinosaur and the tusk of a shaggy-coated mammoth from the Ice Age sold for a combined $372,000 at a natural history auction Sunday, auction officials said. The 10-foot tusk of a woolly mammoth found on the Siberian tundra was sold to an anonymous telephone bidder for $96,000, the most such an item has commanded at auction, Pitt said. The auction, which also featured a meteorite and other items, brought in a total of $1.55 million.
2007-03-15 - Milwaukee, United States.
A 76-year-old Kenosha County man in whose cornfield the skeleton of a mammoth believed to be about 12,500 years old was dug up in 1994 is interested in selling it, and officials of the Milwaukee Public Museum are interested in it. "I'm just looking for some funds for my grandkids' college," John Hebior said the possible sale of the skeleton now in 15 large wooden crates and four plastic tubs in the basement of his farmhouse five miles west of Somers.
2007-03-01 - Cromwell, United States. Bob Gagen
Unearthed in Noble County during the winter of 1930-31, the remains of a 10,000-year-old mastodon were trucked to Buffalo, N.Y., where they remained wrapped in plaster and plastic for seven years before being reassembled and placed in a display at that city’s Museum of Natural Science.
2007-02-28 - SEMINOLE, United States. BOB McCLURE
The first fossil artifact was discovered at the park in early February by Seminole High School student Sierra Sarti-Sweeney of North Redington Beach, who was photographing nature when she noticed an object sticking up out of a creek bed. It was later identified as the tooth and a portion of a jaw from a Columbian mammoth, an extinct species of elephant that inhabited North America between 9,000 and 100,000 years ago.
2007-02-25 - LEWISTOWN, United States.
Artifact Identification Day is 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 25 at Dickson Mounds Museum, Lewistown. At 3 p.m. Lincoln College student Judd McCullum and his zoology professor G. Dennis Campbell will give a presentation on their recent discovery of mammoth remains on a school field-trip. Colleague Dr. Jeffrey Saunders, curator of geology for the Illinois State Museum, will follow them with a presentation, "Tales Told by Elephants Found in Illinois," which will review scientific debate over mammoth speci...
2007-02-21 - Stanton Harcourt, United Kingdom.
A rare collection of fossils including a 6ft (1.8m) mammoth tusk was missing for months before its owner noticed it had been stolen. She told police the last time she had seen the £15,000 fossil collection was in October 2006. The 200,000-year-old relics included a mammoth tusk (curved and over 6ft long) and teeth, bison limb bones and reindeer antlers.
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