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Scientists take a step closer to resurrecting the woolly mammoth Rob Stein, All Things Considered, NPR, MArch 6, 2024 Woolly mammoth de-extinction inches closer after elephant stem cell breakthrough By Sascha Pare, LiveScience Scientists at the company Colossal Biosciences have derived induced pluripotent stem cells from elephants, which they say could boost efforts to resurrect woolly mammals Yours, Paul H.

Hello Everyone, I acquired the fossils years ago through an estate sale. The original owner had poorly packed them in a cardboard box and some pieces were broken. They have been repacked very carefully since I found the damage and repacked them 20+ years ago. I am just taking the time to study them and trying to ID as many as possible. I appreciate and am thankful for any help! The original owner was an amateur archy sometime in the 1920s - 1930s. The only information available was these were found "Out West". The last member of the family was elderly and she had been suffering from Alzheimer's for years. Scant info I realize but it is all I have.

I am going to use this as a great place to showcase my personal collection of pliestocene age fossils! First I have a couple of cave hyena jaw sections!

This is a tusk I prepped a few years ago, sourced from central Alaska. It was in great shape for being a partial, no breaks to repair or even major cracks to fill, all natural besides a little stabilization and polishing to bring out the colors. Really strong vivianite on this one and inside the internal cavity appears to be crystals. It was tricky to get a good photo of them, but see below. I took a few of the inside shots with a UV flashlight as well as just a flash. Vivianite crystals?

A first in North America: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/frozen-whole-baby-woolly-mammoth-yukon-gold-fields-1.6501128

Hi, Can anybody offer me a suggestion on how to get a display stand built for my Woolly Mammoth Tusk? I used to live in Alaska. Before I left, I purchased a Tusk as a memento. Dimensions are roughly 38.5 lbs and 7.5' - 8'. It's pretty solid/stable, not polished, and I believe coated in Elmers Glue. I'm looking to get a stand made to display it. Specifically, one that supports it and doesn't apply a stress that could damage the Tusk over time. Does anybody have a recommendation on who I can contact to get a stand?

Hello all, Here is a mammoth tooth from the north sea coast of the Netherlands. I believe mammuthus trogontherii is rare on the north sea coast, but this molar remind me of trogontherii instead of woolly mammoth. The tooth is 20 cm long. Does anyone here know if it could be trogontherii? I'm not an expert so i can't trust my unskilled opinion

Was looking over my right lower mandible of a woolly mammoth jaw and noticed two sets of teeth. Most of the times, there were only four functional molar teeth at a time, two in the upper jaw and two in the lower. Did some research and discovered woolly mammoth teeth are much different than ours. When we lose our baby teeth, adult teeth come in at the same spot. This is not true for mammoths. Once a tooth is worn down from too much grinding, a new tooth grows behind it. The new tooth slowly moves forward and pushes the old one out. This leaves a fresh set of ridges for grinding food. They had six sets of molars throughout a lifetime. The replacement process continues on until the sixth tooth is in place. This happens when the mammoth is about 30 years old. The mammoth uses the sixth molar for the rest of its life. Once the sixth tooth is worn down, there are no more replacement teeth. Without teeth, the mammoth can no longer eat and soon starves. It is unique to find a jaw that has teeth in between two growth stages. Turns out that’s what I have! You can distinctly see a smaller second set in front of the larger one that is getting pushed forward. Wanted to share what I learned today.

Scientists Discover Ice Age Structure Made From Bones of 60 Mammoths by George Dvorsky, Gizmodo, March 2020 https://gizmodo.com/scientists-discover-ice-age-structure-made-from-bones-o-1842363260 This gnarled pile of fossils was once a giant structure—made of Ice Age mammoths By Michael Price, Science Magazine, March 16, 2020 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/gnarled-pile-fossils-was-once-giant-structure-made-ice-age-mammoths Mysterious Ice Age structure made from hundreds of mammoth bones discovered in Russia By Ashley Strickland, CNN, March 16, 2020 https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/16/world/ice-age-mammoth-house-russia-scn/index.html Kostenki: Landscape archaeology of the early Upper Paleolithic on the central East European Plain. Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research https://instaar.colorado.edu/research/projects/kostenki-a-landscape-archaeology-of-the-early-upper-paleolithic-on-the-cent/ https://instaar.colorado.edu/uploads/research/projects/kostenki/kostenki-2008-field-report.pdf https://instaar.colorado.edu/uploads/research/projects/kostenki/kostenki-2007-field-report.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271325772_Kostenki_Geography_and_Culture https://instaar.colorado.edu/uploads/research/projects/kostenki/kostenki-encyclopedia-entry.pdf Yours, Paul H.

Headed up to Walcott in Norfolk Saturday just gone, got there nice and early to beat the crowds, luckily the cold weather had put a lot of people off! Anyway, walked off towards Happisburgh and headed down below the sea defences, was soon finding small pieces of bone but nothing of any major interest, when suddenly i spotted it, up against the sea wall, standing out like a sore thumb, a tooth fragment! I quickly grabbed my prize and gazed in awe at it. I have travelled many miles searching for one of these and now i held one in my hands. I stowed my price in my bag and continued on my way, skipping along the beach until i reached the next groyne, walking up to the corner where you are able to pull yourself up the wall i froze. In front of me, laying on the sand, another one, bigger, better and mine. I couldn't believe it, two in one day! Pure ecstasy filled my veins. The markings on this one were incredible. I continued down to Happisburgh with my bag now considerably heavier (for once). Upon reaching it i could see a lot of other people searching the beach there so i decided to walk back the way i came but search on the tide line now as it was nearly dead low. i walked and waded down the beach until i got to around the halfway mark, i was on the phone at the time to a friend telling him about my day (gloating) and i wasn't really paying much attention so much so i nearly stood on it, looking down, with waves washing over it was another, this one was half buried in the sand so i dug it out like a madman and soon held my prize, this one had been rolled by the waves more so and had been worn down a bit. I carefully packed this one away and walked back to my car. I met a few other hunters on the way with kids who were most impressed by my finds. Now i have no idea of species on these, other than the fragment and second one being Mammoth and someone suggested the last one could be a straight tusked elephant, if anyone could expand my knowledge that would be great! This is my super serious fossil hunting face. It may surprise you but i am filled with joy inside. Thanks for taking the time to read this!