2010-05-29 - Monroe, United States.
Museum Village in Monroe will hold a fundraising dinner and program devoted to the mystery of the Orange County mastodons and their scientific and historical significance on Saturday, June 19 from 5 to 9 p.m. Following dining under a tent on the Village Green, Evan Galbraith of Tuxedo will present his design and vision for the Peale Museum of Discovery in Montgomery.
2010-05-01 - Elk Valley, Canada. REBECCA EDWARDS AND MARY GIULIANO
Elk Valley resident Popeye Fontana thought nothing of the fossil he found out on a hunting trip in the Corbin area of the Flathead Valley – but, years later, a scholar has confirmed it is a mammoth tooth over 16,000 years old. Lower Elk Valley Road resident Fontana, 83, noticed the unusual fossil while out hunting three years ago, but it wasn’tuntil earlier this year that its significance was recognized.
2010-03-01 - Casper, United States.
After resting for 11,600 years underground, Dee the mammoth has a home at the Tate Geological Museum at Casper College. More than 180 bones were unearthed from the Allemand Ranch about 25 miles north of Glenrock, cleaned and sent to South Dakota to be mounted. The skeleton returned to Casper over the weekend, and carpenters and staff members on Monday assembled the pieces on a large platform at the front of the museum.
2010-03-01 - chicago, United States.
Lyuba, the baby wooly mammoth that goes on display this week at the Field Museum, was preserved almost perfectly intact right down to her baby fat for 42,000 years in frigid Siberian river muck. Now released from her icy grave, she is being preserved in much the same manner as another famous Russian relic, the body of Communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. It is a process called desiccation, removing all moisture from the body tissues.
2010-01-26 - , United States.
When money trouble led collector Jerry Snapp to put his prized possession up for sale, he had no idea what lay ahead. Jerry Snapp loved Tiffany, and it broke his heart that he had to sell her. Close to 200 pounds, almost 4 feet tall, a foot and a half wide, she was his most beautiful skull. He picked her up in the spring of '97. He heard about her from a friend and wanted to know where she came from. "The L.A. Zoo," his friend said.
2010-01-17 - East Lansing, United States. Leanne Smith
If Sandra Losey Gifford closes her eyes, she can almost see giant prehistoric elephant-like animals grazing on her family's Tompkins Township farm. It isn't a far stretch. Fifty-five years ago — Jan. 6, 1955, to be exact — the farm, owned then by her grandparents, Vern and Avis Losey, and parents, Hugh and Harriett Losey, became a hot spot when the bones of a 12,000-year-old woolly mammoth were unearthed in a pond she often swam in on warmer days. "I came home from school, and there were peo...
2010-01-14 - Tucson, United States.
It's close to 14 feet tall and almost 20,000 years old. And this prehistoric beast is for sale. GeoDecor, an Arizona company specializing in fossils, minerals and meteorites for interior design and research, is unveiling the ice age giant to southern Arizonans as part of an exhibit. The skeleton was originally found in eastern Siberia. This is a monster. This is one of the largest... maybe one of the top three mammoths ever found, GeoDecor President Tom Lindgren said.
2010-01-12 - Harrisburg, United States.
State Rep. John Siptroth reminds residents that a mastodon skeleton that was excavated in Marshall’s Creek will be the centerpiece of an exhibit at the State Museum from Jan. 24 to May 2 called Tusks! Ice Age Mammoths and Mastodons. The mastodon died about 12,000 years ago in a marshy area, according to museum officials. The site of the discovery was Leap’s Bog on the border of Smithfield and Middle Smithfield townships across Route 209 from the Pocono Bazaar. The bones, which are not fossil...
2009-12-15 - Edmonton, Canada. Elise Stolte
Woolly mammoths and ancient horses disappeared from North America thousands of years later than originally thought, casting doubt on common theories of a sudden mass extinction, says a researcher from the University of Alberta. Duane Froese and a team of international researchers have been studying the dramatic changes in climate conditions at the end of the Pleistocene era about 13,000 years ago using evidence gathered at a dig on the Yukon River in northern Alaska.
2009-11-07 - Albany, United States. SCOTT WALDMAN
A 9-foot-long mastodon tusk recently excavated in Orange County is now at the State Museum. The tusk may be the largest ever found in New York state. It was discovered by two people canoeing through Orange County a year ago, but could not be excavated until recently because of weather conditions. Museum scientists removed the tusk from the riverbank where it had remained buried for thousands of years.
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