Baby Mammoths' Post Mortem

[Scylla]

Amazing what can be learned from CT scans. Amazing images in this story too:

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/8076/20140715/baby-mammoths-violent-deaths-revealed.htm

[Oxytropidoceras]

There are short videos about these mammoths in

"Short lives, violent deaths: Two CT-scanned Siberian

mammoth calves yield trove of insights" by Jim Erickson

Michigan News, Univresity of MIchigan

http://ns.umich.edu/new/multimedia/videos/22280-short-lives-violent-deaths-two-ct-scanned-siberian-mammoth-calves-yield-trove-of-insights

The paper is;

Fisher, D. C., E. A. Shirley, C. D. Whalen, Z. T. Calamari,

A. N. Rountrey, A. N. Tikhonov, B. Buigues, F. Lacombat,

S. Grigoriev, and P. A. Lazarev, 2014, X-ray computed

tomography of two mammoth calf mummies. Journal of

Paleontology. vol. 88, no. 4, pp. 664-675.

http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1666/13-092

Yours,

Paul H.

Edited July 16, 2014 by Oxytropidoceras