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it is currently witnessing the sewage infrastructure construction of the small region specially filmic zone promises exceptional of the treaties for developing your business in russia will come to the similar region for more information log on to the book invest in some more of that all you. its all false now our most cadences feel the instant he be out of find in it never the country's interim leaders are struggling to form a cabinet meanwhile the french president can face a legal battle that cove over his country's actions in the war. palestinians are set to take center stage in new york this week to try and secure statehood recognition although the wide support they are getting would clash with the wii so wielding u.s. the world's key financial institutions say an independent palestine would be strong enough to carry. on the e.u.
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is calling for calm even the ethnic tensions that erupted when call surveys seems to checkpoints on its northern border with it had to substitute caging be a pro drones meanwhile belgrade's top negotiator is urging all sides to seek a diplomatic solution objects and take you to the frozen expanses of russia's far east where archaeologists have been finding well preserved remains of ice age mallards. the shore of the seal before it's here lies mother down one of the most extreme regions of russia you can get to the most remote parts of to costa and you're kuta 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
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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 a northeastern yakutia a wealth of remains of extinct animals dating back to the ice age is hidden beneath the permafrost nama fossils and tusks have been found here however to find that the researches are after is something special a prehistoric bison completely mummified 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
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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 it's. 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 price to see the park that period came to an end some eleven thousand years ago as approximately the same time the last remaining mammoths died out on the rest of the continent leaving behind their tusks from a kind. of material which in this organic tooth tissue called then seeing is really remarkable stuff. for a few and this is the last front tooth from a mammoth. it was an extraordinary animal the people are fountains of years ago were aware of its useful properties here we use the stuff to make the first tools
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utensils even works of awesome people have always been fascinated by the material from. which a cult courageous village of a newly sc as a population of about five hundred and just situated on the banks of the mali and really river. nearly all the villages that spend the brief summer in the tundra anti-god tending reindeer hunting and fishing from here the expedition heads for the sites where the primitive bison is found. if it's the right show to do what the man who steers the boat tells you that it was made brush against the river bed in shallow places happens don't panic people know the lay of the land well and i'll tell you what to do if maybe it's good you. could here you can easily get around by water people mostly use lightweight boats for the purpose
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but explorers should be aware of the difficulties that local rivers have installed . there are geologists biologists and paleontologists among expedition members travelling to this remote 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 a way it's banks. it's the clean air base the there is an abundance of animal fossils here even if people were to come from all over to take them up it would take several years to finish their job. the expedition camps out on a patch of land by the river. a cliff where the bison nami 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 mom of five corpse
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to find was immediately reported to fyodor should love skiing he is officially licensed to collect paleontological objects in this area it was fielder who organized the expedition and prepared a camp for field research. but she wouldn't know she's day 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 mildred you work in the evening everybody will come up with a plan of their own and we'll correct everything with critique you. tagging along with the expedition is our county should love ski both the son of the organizer and the youngest member of the group of 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 in its collection. this is a bison horn. preserved because it was kept in
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a natural freezer. bags salada carry let me show you how well done. work like that for another two days and then most of you back home. at the moment this one squash interesting it's a mammoth as stenzel points are divided into three sections which points to its very old age such plates 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 in north america there is trunks were small of them those of modern day elephants for their tusks a 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 are the hunting. the last moments left in the late pleistocene april.
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today visitors are free to take a stroll in the park dating back to the place to see an era it's the result of the efforts of scientists. in fenced off one hundred sixty square kilometers of forest tundra trub lakes and swamps the park is situated seventy kilometers from the expedition's field company in a coastal is northeast the arctic ocean is only one hundred fifty kilometers away. but the function of the water in the bog that was here fifteen years ago never dried up today there is grass here. of course is because the grass when it is the least twenty twenty five centimeters long to figure for bison is fourteen centimeters it can be assumed therefore as bison nibbled at the lower grass level as the trail behind a horse's. zimm of
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a mr reconstruct what he calls the mammoth step. this is ecosystem was predominant in the arctic of the late place to seen huge herds of large herbivores such as namath's 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 tundra the ecosystem of mt the steps in the north had completely changed and she would you think today's climate to you would suit mammoth perhaps admirably i.q. and seen my mind's eye animals creating pastures for themselves with these wars and bison 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
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mammoth two are there they count that's the least thing we want they'll do are everything around here. two members of the expedition i live missy and feel just share the bark of their job is to look for mammoth tusks eleven field who are together almost all the time when it comes to looking for fossils they can't waste neither one wants to share his secrets with the other. of cretin there is steep slopes all along the bank everybody knows that mammoth tells could be found here although many people are on the lookout if you actually find any has got some secrets to keep what you need in his job is that emulation. the first step is a careful inspection of the steep slopes from a boat to molly and is a tributary of the river column on each spring rain water from the melted snow flood the tributary over flowing water washes the bank away forcing permafrost to
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retreat as a result big chunks of rock tumble down into the water to expose ice bound missions deep inside. the macdonald 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 of 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 tough contact. with a great stroke of luck the other has found a tusk of impressive size. going
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on this one is easy to carry it only weighs about thirty kilograms. rain has brought work at the burial site to an abrupt halt life in the camp has come to a standstill. culture is that so much if there is a huge decision. to supplant the peace process the palestinians will ask the united nations to upgrade their current observer status so that a full member state. emissions free could take three. four judges three. major men three. three.
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three. old fremont to live video for your media projects and free media don carty dot com. when there was a lot of sunshine in the grass i was close stronger with each passing day. when the i.c. me with the bison had been found melted away mummified animal was instantly moved into an ice house and we think that we're about to enter a unique place but it's a gift to people from the northern climates. makes it possible to store food if it's a remarkable place there's nothing special about the small ice house but it is unique nonetheless you know we get to see something even more exciting in science. the
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corridor and cells of the ice house were hollowed out by hand and sand 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 play experience usually warm this summer in chicago. by the permafrost began to degrade and regularly melt away and we feared we might lose the bison buried in it. consequently the members of my team get to this ice house as fast as possible we have. 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 quickly
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suffocated many others have theories of their own. so you have made up with only sure that it might have died when the spinal cord or the 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've 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 or it's that lever workable chances are something helped atlanta the natural trap. that's possible and we know that lions were around here at the time and strew permafrost is an excellent job of preserving the bison soft tissues and even characteristic smell that's a pretty strong smell there yes it smells like
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a cow from just you know. as far as can be seen there are no major injuries on the bisons body according to a tentative assessment by some die during the pleistocene period and spotty 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 get around to get as much information as they can and when they're on the front line as it were. in the summer heat has radically changed the shape of the cliff where the previous story bison was found two scientists have lunch at the boat not far off on the five mammoths burial place. would be with me if this is where the nominally joycean was found we need to establish when and how the animal delayed and the natural
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environment it was typical of that. periods were good enough to do what you agree with. the cleft contains clay with peat streaks in it this is the best material for radio carbon measurements radio carbon dating will help establish the period when the bison lived clay accumulated during cold periods where as peat formed the air when the climate became warm. or she was disturbed again this is peat and here you can find anything you like draws insects and little to exist but it was more. the bison may have been involved like this one but you. might be and will need to find out whether this kind of peas. is also on the other side of the bank with them ok. but. 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
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bison lived abroad this way even a lake with riddle's that the bison was in a nice situated in one of the peaks top players one thing is crystal clear it was not a natural death otherwise insects would have eaten not bisons body scientists speculate that after the bison died the mud quickly enveloped his body and saved it from predators and the natural deep freeze prevented it from decomposition. was and was not. it's possible but most of being swept away by floodwaters and brought us here . is most of being too weak to resist the flood about four and a slight i thought also the small amount of peat it points to a bugging procedures that well i'm sure it was that the voices body was in fact in a swamp it is going to. so he must have grown in it but why do you.
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ancient fossils now with tusks found in this area are unique with terrell's. this is a standard but workshop it contains a wealth of natural stuff simmons a man made figurines. the moment we were veered 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. from a jail and the objects we make from them will survive for hundreds of years to delight people. therefore we treasure mammoth tusks. own covers consul forward to make mistakes a faulty cut cannot be done all compositions are unique works of art it is impossible to fake or imitate each object costs
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a lot of money and all of the world's monex connoisseurs i'm open to let its own traditional figurines of mammoths made tusks the moment the mammoth tusks and fossils are preserved in permafrost of the would be frozen earth begins following the test decomposers. with since i thought i should but just ceres riding in permafrost like this one are absolutely tapestries one would assume 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 river it takes four and a half hours by air to get in their city is enough laboratory attracts scientists college students from all over the world. they're interested in is enough studies of permafrost anomalous and valleys the fact that the station is far removed from
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civilization and nearly every summer college students come here from the united states to work and there is international projects. where i live is that for a player on as well that where you go to school it is the belief that this is a bit different. now that's the way. it. plasticine park is one of said gays in office most ambitious projects in recent years he has been doing his best to bring in various species of herbivores. these young elks are in for a long journey from a small pen to freedom. easy easy that you can take him away to showcase there you go. if you're joking. ok. looking forward that's it if vick well tough you're going to see if
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they've been around for a month but one of the elks was very sick and we had to work hard to nor seen 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 a very hot permafrost forty kilometers from the station. during the summer it can only be reached by boat the elks a transfer to the motorboat with utmost cat. is enough is always at the wheel on such occasions. this is not the first time that he has used this small multiple to transport tunnels. and the place where i live is the world's least accessible point economically speaking or the method of transport
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costs more than anywhere else if we brought the most buffaloes by motor boat from rango island. the young adults of become accustomed to humans and learn to trust them for that reason they patiently wake the chance to go free. puc staff carry the animals by hand from the bank to the pen. but before they are let into the wild they will go through a period of a climatized nation. in the world. says days him off believes that the devils can survive in these rigorous conditions moreover they can radically change the landscape. of klute and should be an open landscape with scatter tribes whooshes for trees tiny brusa lakes sense tree in the
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grass why do they mowed a grass and corpse you may ask that's because there were millions of herbivores in the old piece you want to throw up at the grass was there staple food it's the sort of landscape that man is used to i'm comfortable here no 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 attracted mammoths and other have with those. early man quickly followed suit. today most of the people living in this rugged region mind precious metals.
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this is a gold mining building to costco and 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 form it's it's because there's a foreign object lying underneath which has been there for tens or even hundreds of thousands of years and all the sudden no frost begins spirit out in the end the object shows up in the midst of tundra not as in for the case 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
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altai on the southern europe. these remains of a woolly rhino cave there bison among the five horse legs and a complete one year old mammoth all give us an idea of what these prehistoric animals looked like. the fossils of primitive predators have divorced 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 have concluded that it is the world's most complete mummy of a bison it is much better preserved the blue baby the famous mummy of a bison found in alaska. the summer i am station this is
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a true scientific sensation such fines are absolutely unique when something similar is found it is just fragments in most cases but this is a perfect colpus of a is all we can get an idea of what it looked like what was inside its body and what it ate shortly before his death and much more. the next scientific expedition to this cold harsh environment may well result in another said station or find remains of a cave liar been found close to the site where the kubel died.
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