The pelvis bone of a mammoth nicknamed "Zed" found at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles is shown in this publicity photo released to Reuters February 18, 2009. The nearly complete skeleton of a massive Columbian mammoth who died during the last ice age has been dug out of a construction site near the La Brea Tar Pits, a remarkable find even in the fossil-rich area, scientists said.REUTERS/Karen Knauer/Page Muse
The pelvis bone of a mammoth nicknamed "Zed" found at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles is shown in this publicity photo released to Reuters February 18, 2009. The nearly complete skeleton of a massive Columbian mammoth who died during the last ice age has been dug out of a construction site near the La Brea Tar Pits, a remarkable find even in the fossil-rich area, scientists said.REUTERS/Karen Knauer/Page MuseThe iceman, nicknamed "Oetzi" for the Oetz valley where he was found by German tourists atop the Similaun glacier in 1991, and is believed to be over 5,000 years old. The Italian government has claimed the rights on the mummy because it was found some ten metres on the Italian side of the Oetztal alps.REUTERS/Werner NoskoScientists found a two-inch lower molar of a Camelops at the snowmass village.Camelops is an extinct genus of camels that once roamed western North America and disappeared along with mastodons at the end of the Pleistocene about 10,000 years ago. Camelops were slightly taller than modern camels and scientists are not certain if this species possessed a hump, like modern camels, or lacked one, like its modern llama relatives.Denver Museum of Nature andThe Ice Age horse bone is one of more than 2,300 fossils that have been uncovered near Snowmass Village in Colarado, US. The bone was found at the very bottom of the sediment and is thus one of the oldest animals at the site. Horses were common in North America during the Ice Age and disappeared from North America about 12,000 years ago.Denver museum of nature andA municipal police officer covers what is believed to be the tusk of a mammoth found several days ago in Chignahuapan, MexicoREUTERS/Karen Knauer/
Russian scientists recently grew plants from fruits stored by squirrels, in Siberian permafrost conditions, more than 30,000 years ago!
The team, led Svetlana Yashina and David Gilichinsky, from the Institute of Cell Biophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, have raised the Silene stenophyllaplant from seeds buried at a depth of 38 metres, on the banks of Kolyma River in Siberia.
This is scarcely the first time that scientists have been involved in the discovery of animals and plants once believed to be extinct.
In 2010, a team from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science was involved in excavating the Snowmass village in Colarado, U.S. They found an entire Ice Age ecosystem near the village. They found parts of the American mastodon, bison, ground sloth, Columbian mammoth, deer, horse and camel.
From mammoth to mummies and other mammals, scientists have often discovered that some amazing animals believed to be extinct were, in fact, not...
