2006-10-05 - Helsinki, Finland.
Finlands most recent mammoth bone finding was made in an unusual place, namely in the garage of Professor of Genetics Marja Simonsuuri-Sorsas home in the Espoo suburb of Tapiola. A piece of a bone, a humerus from a mammoths left front leg, lay hidden in a cardboard box for over 40 years. Simonsuuri-Sorsa was a young biologist in 1960, when she found a large piece of bone in a summer cottage potato patch in Suomusjärvi. She had just finished a course in paleontology and wondered excitedly whethe...
2006-09-27 - Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic.
Bone fragments from a mammoth, along with the remains of another prehistoric animal were found, along with the remains of an auroch (prehistoric cow) or of a prehistoric horse," during excavations to build a commercial centre said Paleontologist Martin Holub, following Sunday's discovery in the city of Usti-nad-Labem. Stone-age hunters who lived in the area between 30,000 and 20,000 BC likely killed the mammal, Holub said.
2006-09-05 - Moscow, Russian Federation.
Two residents of a village in Russia’s Siberia found unique remnants of a mammoth, stole the tusk and threw the rest away. The dismantled skeleton, discovered several days later, proved to be a sensational find with well-preserved not only bones, but muscular tissue and sinew, as well as fragments of a brown-yellowish coat, RIA Novosti reported. After that they continued the digging, throwing what they found in a pile aside.
2006-08-22 - FORT ROBINSON, United States.
University of Nebraska Museum Director Priscilla Grew said the new Columbian Mammoth exhibit in the Trailside Museum at Fort Robinson State Park will put the western Nebraska museum on the map. It depicts the fossils of two Ice Age mammoths who died more than 15,000 years ago, tusks interlocked, during a prehistoric battle. The fossils were discovered in 1962 by a crew of students from UNL, including Mike Voorhies, who was there for the unveiling of the exhibit.
2006-08-09 - Budapest, Hungary.
A fossilized mammoth skull, including a meter-and-a-half section of a tusk and several teeth, was discovered in Zok, a village near the city of Pecs in South Hungary, a spokesman for Pecs University said on Wednesday. Initial digs suggested that the mammoth had been hunted and killed by humans, which makes the find even more interesting. Mammoth fossils were last found in July, when a calf and an adult were unearthed at the shore of Lake Balaton in W Hungary, while constructing a road.
2006-07-15 - Vancouver Island, Canada. Aaron Bichard
It was the lure of lures that had local Terry Hill snorkeling in the Stoltz Pool waters last month during his holidays. But it was finding a piece of a 22,000-year-old elephant that registered as his catch of the day. Hill took the tusk to the Royal B.C. Museum where curator of archaeology Grant Keddie verified that it was from an elephant, but couldn't say whether it was a mammoth or a mastodon.
2006-07-11 - Riverdale, California, United States.
William McEntee, director of permits and concerns for the Road Commission, said a tooth was used to identify the remains as those of a mastodon and not a mammoth, which also lived in the area. John Zawiskie, geologist for the Cranbrook Institute of Science, said the bones will be taken to Cranbrook, where a scientific study would begin. Zawiskie said mastodons haven't been around in at least 12,000 years, but the discovery isn't as rare as people think."About every summer, something pops up," Za...
2006-07-09 - Rochester Hills, Michigan, United States. DAN CORTEZ
Excavators in Rochester Hills dug up a bit of Michigans past Friday while building a road for the future. Crews working with the Road Commission for Oakland County unearthed what they think are the remains of a mastodon, a tusked mammal that grazed in the Great Lakes area for thousands of years before becoming extinct 10,000 years ago.
2006-07-07 - London, United Kingdom. James Owen, for National Geographic News
The 400,000 year old remains of a massive elephant discovered near London was a male straight tusked elephant, a member of the extinct species Palaeoloxodon antiquus, weighed about 9 tons (9.1 metric tons), twice as large as elephants living today. Workers unearthed the remains in 2004 in the town of Ebbsfleet, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) east of London, during construction of a new railway line to the Channel Tunnel.
2006-07-04 - EREGLI, Turkey.
A 2.5-meter mammoth tooth fossil was unearthed in Eregli town of central city of Konya, said Erksin Gulec, a lecturer at the Anthropology Department of Ankara University. After examining the fossil tooth, predicted to be about 2 million years old, Gulec said that scientists thought that there were swamps and lakes in this region at the age of the mammoths.
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