The BBC is reporting on the discovery of a mammoth carcass found preserved in Siberian ice for at least 10,000 years. The carcass is that of a juvenile mammoth, about 2.5 years old, that researchers have dubbed “Yuka”. Its flesh, and even hair, have endured astonishingly well over millennia buried in ice. Video of the mammoth being uncovered can be seen on the BBC website.
As if the anyone needs additional incentive to be interested in a dinosaur exhibit beyond, like, dinosaurs, the American Museum of Natural History is opening The World’s Largest Dinosaurs, centred around a massive half-skin, half-dissected, life-sized Mamenchisaurus.
Tomorrow marks the opening of New York’s Museum of Natural History’s long-awaited dinosaur exhibit, called “The World’s Largest Dinosaurs”. We talked to curator and paleontologist Mark Norell about the show – and how these super-giant animals ever stayed upright.
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