from steve price you. start on t.v. dot com. nine thirty am in moscow these here are the headlines as colonel gadhafi is remaining troops hold out against government forces and nato air strikes in libya the french president faces a legal battle at home over his country's intervention in the conflict lawyers claim nicolas sarkozy should be held to account for crimes against humanity committed during the bombing of libya. international effort stepped up to calm border tension in kosovo where neither locals nor serbs seem willing to back down after recent bloodshed and mulling a proposal to end the deadlock sparked by the violent seizure of two border post tycho's of ins in july. and its stated showdown at the un is the general assembly

gets ready to vote on the status of palestine with deep divisions get preparing to break the surface the u.s. and israel remain opposed to getting the palestinians a seat at the world body. up next we take you to russia's remote chukotka region where the landscape has almost remained unchanged since is was discovered hundreds of years ago stay with us. the shore of the seal before it's paralyze mother down one of the most extreme regions of russia you can get to the most remote parts of to costa and you cuccia from here. these researches are off to what may well turn out to be a sensation they know that something unusual has been found on the banks of one of the rivers in the country's north the scientists want to see whether the find is indeed as unique as they have been led to believe if it turns out to the truth the

scientific community will get an intriguing glimpse to what life on earth was like thousands of years ago. expedition will travel across western chukotka the northeast and yakutia a wealth of remains of extinct animals dating back to the ice age is hidden the need for the permafrost a number of fossils tusks have been found here. however the find that the researches are after is something special a prehistoric bison completely moment find by nature. of which some forty mummified animal remains have been found in the world since biology became a science two hundred years ago some twenty of them are more or less in good condition all the others are just fragments legs skulls and the like are only two bison have been found over the years one in alaska and the other here you know from

what i've seen much more is left of this one this is why it is more valuable for research because. some time ago geologists found in a rave mammoth fossils and this out of the way part of russia. it was the world's first and most large scale expedition of its kind scientists believe the area is full of relics from the late place to see me talk that period came to an end some eleven thousand years ago approximately the same time the last remaining mammoths died out on the rest of the continent leaving behind their tusks for mankind some perceived material which in this organic to tissue called then team is really remarkable stuff keep your perfume this is the last front tooth from a mammoth. it was an extraordinary animal the people of thousands of years ago were aware of its useful properties here we use the stuff to make the first tools

utensils even works of awesome people have always been fascinated by the material for. which a cook to region spillage of a new school has a population of about five hundred and a situated on the banks of the mali a newly river. nearly all the villages that spend the brief summer in the tundra anti-car tending reindeer hunting and fishing from here the expedition heads for the site where the primitive bison was found solutions to divide the show to do what the man who steers the boat tells it was the recolor may brush against the river bed in shallow places happens don't panic the people know the lay of the land well and they'll tell you what to do if need be it stood you good here you can easily get around by water people mostly use like white boats for the purpose but explorers should be aware of the difficulties that local rivers have in store. there are geologists

biologists and paleontologists among expedition members travelling to this remote and cold environment has been a cherished ambition for many of them. since its formation several thousand years ago the mallee and we river has kept many secrets about the ice age in no way in its banks. is the clinic i see there is an abundance of animal fossils here even if people were to come from all over to dig them up it would take several years to finish the job. the expedition camps out on a patch of land by the river. a cliff where the bison money was found is across its some local sol the animal when they were travelling past the place by boat at that moment a huge chunk of permafrost collapsed into the water to reveal the mummified corpse

the fine was immediately reported to fyodor should love skiing is officially licensed to collect paleontological objects in this area it was filmed and organized the expedition and prepared a camp for field research. she would then you know she today i think that we need to inspect the place and just relax a bit before we would like to move to that side. of the duty we'll do it he would enabling everybody will come up with a plan of their own and we'll correct everything with pretty. tagging along with the expedition is our county should love ski both the son of the organizer and the youngest member of the group but all the others arrived he had already gathered a huge number of ancient fossils found in the area the group has taken a lively interest his collection. of this is a bison horn. will preserve because it was kept in a natural freezer. bags

a lot of credit let me show you how well done. work like that for another two days and then we said you record. at the moment this one squad interesting it's a mammoth is total points are divided into three sections which points to its very old age so splits are often found in early elephants. the only mammoth is an extinct member of the elephant family during the ice age woolly mammoths lived in most areas of eurasia or north america they isn't trunks were small of those of modern day elephants but their tusks are much larger. it is speculated that such mammoths lived in groups led by older females current theory suggests that they became extinct due to climate change and over hunting. the last moments left in the late pleistocene equal.

today visitors are free to take a stroll in the park dating back to the place to see neera it's the result of the efforts of scientists. who fenced off one hundred sixty square kilometers of forest tundra shrubs lakes and swamps the park is situated seventy kilometers from the expeditions field come in your course is ne the arctic ocean is only one hundred fifty kilometers away. but the fortunes of the water in the bog that was here fifteen years ago never dried up today there is grass here so of course is because the grass when it is the least twenty twenty five centimeters long if you are for bison is fourteen centimeters it can be assumed therefore the bison nibbled at the lower grass level as the trail behind the horse's. zimm of a mr reconstruct what he calls the mammoth step. this ecosystem was predominant in

the arctic of the late price to seen huge herds of large herbivores such as mammoths woolly rhinos running their horses bison used to graze here. why many of the species died out approximately ten thousand years ago is still unclear another ice age came to an end around the same time it gave way to swamps to address the ecosystem of mt steps in the north had completely changed and she would you think today's climate to you would suit mammoth steps adorable i.q. and seen my minds are animals creating pastures for themselves would you do these horses in boston haven't seen one another for twelve thousand years but their genetic memory tells them after just a couple months of that they do you know one another i need i will recall the mammoth two are there they count that's the listing we want and they'll do our

everything around here. two members of the expedition i live missy and feel the shuttle back of their job is to look for mammoth tusks eleven feel to our to gether almost all the time when it comes to looking for fossils they park place near warm ones to share his secrets with the other. reason there is steep slopes all along the bank everybody knows that mammoth tells can be found here although many people are on the lookout if you actually find any obviously have got some secrets to keep what he needed his job as a termination. the first step is a careful inspection of the steep slopes from the boat to mali and he is a tributary of the river column on each spring rain water from melted snow flood the tributary over flowing water washes the bank away forcing permafrost to retreat

as a result big chunks of rock tumble down into the water to expose ice bound missions deep inside. the world not first of all you must know what it looks like. you should look forward everywhere. i dream about finding a mammoth goal. that's my aim here after all others have found such things. only people whose job is looking for tusks know the telltale signs of where they hide shallow waters of the best place for a toss come to it with a great stroke of luck hilda has found a tusk of the oppressive size. of a program for this one is easy to carry it anyways above thirty kilograms. of.

rain has brought work at the burial sites to an abrupt halt life in the calm has come to a standstill. cultures that so much are going to huge decision by the defense in the absence of a peace process the palestinians will ask the united nations to upgrade their current observer status so that a full member state. colin

. when there was a lot of sunshine in chicago the grass and follows close stronger with each passing day. in the icy nisha with the bison being found melted away mummified animal was instantly moved into an ice house. and we were about to enter a unique place it's a gift to people from the northern climates permafrost makes it possible to store food. it's a remarkable place there's nothing special about this small ice house but it is unique nonetheless you know we're going to see something even more exciting in science. the corridor ansel's the ice house will hollowed out by hand inside an enormous ice formation the walls and floor i'm a device each year they're sprayed with water until ation is checked at the same

time this makes it possible to maintain the low temperature and humidity. with your experience usually warm this summer in chicago. but you know permafrost lead began to degrade and rapidly melt away and we feared we might lose the bison buried in it . consequently members of my team moved it to this ice house as fast as possible. what would lead specialists instantly try to find out what caused the animal's death the bisons tail stands upright instead of being pressed against the body this in direct sign may indicate that it quickly suffocated many others have theories of their own. so we had on the sure it might have died when the spinal cord skull was suddenly fractured. in other words it might have been buried in the falling rock or. also it could have fallen through

a crack and. when we were moving it into this cell i was saddened to see that one of its horns have been severely damaged i do you know rourke there's a crack at the bottom of the boat and i knew that means that the skull must have suffered a serious injury. either this happened after its death or it was the cause of its. chances are something help that landed a natural trap. but it's possible that we know that lions were around here at the time it's true permafrost has done an excellent job of preserving the bison soft tissues and even characteristic smell that's a pretty strong smell there yes it smells like a cow just you know. as far as can be see there are no major injuries on the bisons body according to a tentative assessment by some die join the pleistocene period its body has spent

around thirty thousand years in permafrost. wards scientists are delighted to see that here the bison is in the sort of environment that existed thousands of years ago. some of them working on the bank today. he would know they're out to get as much information as they can when they're on the frontline as it were. the summer heat is radically changed the shape of the cliff where the prehistoric bison was found two scientists have lunch at that boat not far off on the five burial place. we didn't know what. this is where the normally fully joycean was found we need to establish when and how the animal delayed and the natural environment that was typical of that. period where to begin with you were agree with. the cleft contains clay with peach streaks in it this is the best material

a radio carbon measurements radio carbon dating will help establish the period when the bison lived clay accumulated during cold periods whereas peaks formed there when the climate became warmer. or jewish history this is pete for you here you can find anything you like draws insects and little to exist but it was more than ok for the bison may have been in a bog like this one but you. will be and will need to find out whether this kind of piece. is also on the other side of the bank who are paying for you to follow do you think the ripples in this formation date back to those times and i'm sure they do it highlights the relief of the period between the period when our bison lived growing a slave in a lake with riddle's that the bison was in a nice situation in one of the pete's top players one thing is crystal clear it was not a natural death otherwise insects would be to not bisons body scientists speculate

that after the bison died most quickly enveloped his body and saved it from predators and the natural deep freeze prevented it from decomposition. was and was not his own disposable the delegate might have been swept away by floodwaters and brought him up three years and she was. president is most of being too weak to resist the flood i thought for when they saw you shaking i thought also the small amount of p.t. had points to holding processors and while i'm sure it was the voices body was in fact that escalus womanhood is going to show so he might have drowned in it go like you. ancient fossils now with tusks found in this area are unique with terrell's columns. this is a standard workshop it contains

a wealth of natural specimens and manmade figurines. the moment we were vere mammoth tusks more than any other bones with their valuable if only because they were underground for thousands of years before somebody chanced upon them. some would you know and the objects we make from them will survive for hundreds of years to delight people. therefore we treasure mammoth tusks. but don't call this consul forward to make mistakes a faulty cut cannot be done all compositions are unique works of art it isn't possible to fake or imitate each object costs a lot of money nearly all of the world's monex connoisseurs and wealthy collectors untrue dish and figurines of mammoths might toss. the moment mammoth tusks and fossils are best preserved in permafrost out of the woody frozen earth begins

thawing it just decomposes it alerts since the thought action but just series idea and permafrost like this one are absolutely in tatters when they would have said it was just. this is one of the permafrost areas so gazing off a scientist founded the northeastern research station the rocky bank of the colin model river it takes four and a half hours by air to get and their city has enough laboratory attracts scientists college students from all over the world. they are interested in similar studies of permafrost anomalous and valleys the fact that the station is far removed from civilization nearly every summer college students come here from the united states to work in various international projects. where you live is that for a claim or all as well but where you go to school of a city is that this is

a bit and then that you as the wire. plasticine park is one of said gazing off so most ambitious projects in recent years he has been doing his best to bring in various species of the folks. these young elks are in for a long journey from a small pen to freedom. easy easy that you can take them away to showcase there you go and usually. you. look forward that's it if pick up that well tough you know you see if they've been around for a month one of the else was very sick and we had to work hard to nor seem back to health. now that there are fewer mosquitoes here there it's going to be released

into the park taking. place to scene pock is at the very heart of permafrost forty kilometers from the station. during the summer it can only be reached by boat the elks are transferred to the motorboat with utmost catch. him off as always at the wheel on such occasions. this is not the first time that he has used the smallness of boat to transport animals. near the place where i live is the world's least accessible point economically speaking or the method of transport costs more than anywhere else we brought the most buffaloes by motor boat from bronco island.

the young adults of become accustomed to humans and learn to trust them that weaves in they patiently wait for the chance to go free. thought staff carried the animals by hand from the bank to the pen. but the full they let into the wild they will go through a period of the crime the ties ation. the world. so days him off the leaves that the devils conserve our lives in these rigorous conditions moreover they can radically change the landscape. of a clue it should be an open landscape that would scatter tribes whooshes for trees tiny brusa lakes and trimmed grass why do they mowed grass and quarts you may ask that's because there were millions of herbivores in the old days your that there was a brass was there stable food that's the sort of landscape that man is used to i'm

comfortable here i'm trying to recreate the natural environment in which my distant ancestors lived. so cool the arctic steps existed in the north thousands of years ago an abundance of food to try to numb assen of the holes. early man quickly followed suit. today most of the people living in this rugged region mine precious metals. this is a gold mining field into caught up in russia's far east ironically it is because of the gold industry that mammoths have been found scraping off the top layer of permafrost in search of mineral wealth revealed these prehistoric names but

sometimes they emerge naturally. people don't know why permafrost sometimes looks to forms it's because there's a foreign object lying underneath which has been there for tens or even hundreds of thousands of years all the sudden permafrost begins spirit out in the end the object shows up in the midst of tundra not edging for the pace of several millimeters a year. over the course of many years the majority of unique prehistoric objects have been found in the permafrost they have been dug up in the russian far east altai on the southern europe's. these remains of a woolly rhino case there bison among the five horse leg and

a complete one year old mammoth all give us an idea of what these prehistoric animals look like. the fossils of primitive predators. provide unique material for studying animal d.n.a. from the ice age. called kobol is widely different from all known fragments of prehistoric hoofed animals. scientists of concluded that it is the world's most complete mummy of a bison it is much better preserved than through baby the famous mummy of a bison found in alaska. this is a true scientific sensation such finds are absolutely unique something similar is found it is just fragments in most cases but this is a perfect colpus if

a boy sir is all we can get an idea of what it looked like what was inside its body and what it age shortly before his death and much more. the next scientific expedition to this cold harsh environment may well result in another sensational find remains of a cave liar been found close to the site where the child called coble died. mission free accreditation free transfer judgers free colorations free. free. free. free blogs can plug in videos for your media projects for free media don carty dot

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