Mammoths - Giants of the Ice Age
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Published 2022-01-12
15,000 years ago our planet was inhabited by millions of mammoths. Their ancestors headed north from the savannas of Africa in a much earlier epoch and spread out over large portions of the globe. This migratory movement began in a warmer climatic phase, so when the Ice Age began the creatures were forced to perform one of the greatest feats of adaptation in the history of the earth. Dick Mol, the world-famous expert on mammoths, traces the original mammoths back to Namibia, trawls the bottom of the North Sea for mammoth fossils and, with the help of gold-diggers in northern Canada, digs up perfectly preserved mammoth bones from the permafrost.
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this guy is truly living his passion. lucky man.
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I could truly feel Dicks enthusiasm for mammoth fossils
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What an incredible landscape it must have been when these beautiful creatures were roaming!
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My favorite Ice Age critters are still sabertooth cats but I loved finding mammoth fossils here in Florida. We don't have bones of the Whooly Mammoth but many Columbian Mammoth fossils. I was fortunate enough to work on several fossils sites comtaing these giants of the Pleistocene mega fauna and I also love studying the fossils of their cousins the Gomphotheres and mastodons. I recently spoke with Dr. Daniel Fisher at the University of Michigan about his latest research on Mammoth specimens from Siberia. This research is bringing to the public a greater awareness of these giants biology and life styles. Very excellent video.
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THE German guy gets so excited in this video, HE LOVES WHAT HE IS DOING...
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when you find human hunting instruments embedded in 15,000 year old mammoths, you sort of have to re-write the historical record a bit.
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Just goes to show that you don't need a college degree to be an expert in a particular field...the college educated guys seek out this guy's guidance...love it...that's a man who has truly earned his position in life...mad respect...🤟🏿😎👍🏿
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Great to feel the emotion this man has for these noble mammoths.
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My moms uncle who died in 1994 had what I believe was a Mammoth tusk he found in southern Minnesota in an area that later became a park. It was very straight and about 8 feet long. It was in a round clear tube when I saw it in 1994 and the surface was flaking like an old bar of soap left outside of a package for several years. He had a $10,000 tag on it as he had been trying to sell it for too much for years or decades. I saw it after he passed away and his son said that it was going to be donated to a museum.
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Amazing that such creatures were still roaming the Earth less than 5,000 years ago
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Is he insane? A woolie mammoth park! Millions of people would want to see it!! My gosh - what a teaching tool !!!
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We still find mammoths here in Alaska, because of the permafrost! You read about it in our papers, mostly stumbled across by excavators building homes!
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Dr Grant Zazula is a legend!
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I am from Vancouver, BC, I always loved how British Columbia and the Yukon were well-known for woolly mammoth fossils! Especially considering my favourite animals are elephant. I always thought that if Vancouver gets a second shot at the NBA, we should consider calling the team, the Vancouver Mammoths!
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The Ice Age started 2.75m years ago. Within this period there were numerous glacial and inter-glacial periods. The previous interglacial period, the Eemian, was about 125,000 years ago. If we are going to call the period from the Eemian to the start of the present warm (inter-glacial) period and ice age, we need another name for the 2.75m year period in which there were numerous warm and cold periods.
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I’ve seen a more recent report that said the last remaining mammoths were a herd on Alaskas Aleutian Islands. They died because of a lack of available fresh water. This was only 3-4000 years ago.
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Really amazing that within permafrost are so so many bones from animals that lived so long ago, and they are not fossils but still actual bones. Shame and interesting how the bones are often found individually and not complete skeletons. I hope we will be able to retrieve actual DNA from many animals within a given species to maintain the health of the species.
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A prehistoric elephant is any member of Elephantidae that is extinct, modern elephants are a paraphyletic group because prehistoric elephants are nestled within lineages that include modern elephants, asian elephants (genus Elephas) are more closely related to both mammoths (genus Mammuthus) and straight-risked elephants (genus Palaeoloxodon) than they are to african elephants (genus Loxodonta), african elephants are a basal genus within the subfamily Elephantinae (True Elephants), the four-tusked elephants (genus Primelephas) are the only known members of the subfamily Primelephantinae, mammoths are officially counted as elephants because they are part of Elephantidae.
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It’s said mammoths would have been difficult to kill but one javelin hurled through the chest wall puncturing a lung and the animal would die, it may have taken days or weeks but that’s not a long time when your getting so much meat.
