Yakut, scientists have found a unique preserved mammoth carcass
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Participants paleontological expedition Institute of Applied Ecology of the North North-Eastern Federal University and the Russian Geographical Society, found on Lyakhovsky Novosibirsk Islands archipelago unique in keeping the carcass of the female mammoth Sakhanews news agency reported citing NEFU .
According to the participants of the expedition, "the state fossil animal tissues near perfect, only skeletal upper body, head and left rear leg. Scientists examining teeth, established the age of the female mammoth - about 50-60 years."
"Fragments of muscle tissue, we found out that the body has natural red color of fresh meat. Such preservation is due to the fact that the lower part of the trunk of a mammoth-lying almost pure ice, while the upper part was discovered by the authors find in the middle of the tundra, not vytayala from the shore. Separately from the carcass was found and the trunk, which is worst of all is saved - the head of the expedition, the head of the Museum of mammoth named PA Lazarev Institute of Applied Ecology of the North NEFU Semyon Grigoriev. - The tubes with a special curing agent, blood samples were selected for the animal. The blood is very dark in color, it was in the icy voids below the belly, and when we broke in several places Kyle these voids, it has emerged. This is all the more surprising that the ambient temperature at the time of the excavation was kept at around -7 -10 o C. It can be assumed that the blood of mammoths possessed by some cryoprotective properties. "
In Yakutsk brought samples taken from the carcass, bacteriological analysis will be conducted to determine the presence of especially dangerous infections.
"It was important to unearth the mammoth is a cold time of year, as summer or fall of a unique find will inevitably have thawed and invaluable material for the joint project and fund NEFU Sooam« Revival of the mammoth "because of the gap could defrost and the teeth of carnivores" . - Semyon Grigoryev said.
Scientists NIIPES NEFU dedicated this unique find 100-year anniversary of the Yakutsk Branch of Russian Geographic Society, one of the organizers of the expedition, and the 20th anniversary of the Institute of Applied Ecology of the North.
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