you visit kill your. wife from moscow this is r t is kevin owen here tonight with the top stories for you and get a few loyalists are keeping up the fight in libya but the country's interim leaders are struggling to form a cabinet meeting the french president could face a legal battle of hope over his country's actions in the war. the palestinians are set to take center stage in new york on friday to try and secure a stated recognition of the wide support they are getting could clash with a veto wielding u.s. financial institutions independent palestine would be strong enough to cope. with the e.u. is calling for calm over the ethnic tension of the ruptured one kosovo sees two checkpoints on its northern border with serbia. blockade in the approach road

meanwhile belgrade's top negotiators sides to seek a diplomatic solution. to the program to take the frozen expanses of russia's far east where archaeologists have been finding well preserved remains of ice age. the shore of the c.e.o. before it's here lies mother down one of the most extreme regions of russia you can get to the most remote parts of jakarta and you are 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 because they have been led to believe if it turns out to the truth the scientific community will get an intriguing glimpse into what life on earth was

like thousands of years ago. expedition will travel across western and northeastern yakutia a wealth of remains of extinct animals dating back to the ice age is hidden beneath the permafrost none of the fossils tusks have been found here. however the find of 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 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. some time ago geologists found in a rave mammoth fossils in 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 to tissue called ten team is really remarkable stuff team again this is the last front tooth from a mammoth. it was an extraordinary animal the people are fountains of years ago were where it's useful properties here where they use the stuff to make the first tools utensils even works of awesome people have always been fascinated by the

material we think. it's a cult courageous village of a new risk as a population of about five hundred and the situation on the banks of the mali and really river. nearly all the villages that spend the brief summer in the tundra tigar tending reindeer hunting and fishing from here the expedition heads for the site where the primitive bison was found snippets dividing the show to do what the man who steers the boat tells you that it was the propeller may brush against the river bed in shallow places but if i happens don't panic people know the lay of the land well and i'll tell you what to do if need be just with you. 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 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 couple in your case the bear 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. the cliff where the bison mummy was found is across its some local soul 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 them on the five corpse the fine was immediately reported to fyodor should love ski he is officially

licensed to collect paleontological objects in this area it was fuel to the organizers the expedition and prepared a camp for field research. well she would yeah no shit today i think that we need to inspect the place and just relax a bit of what we would like to move to that side because it should not. be beauty smolder it he worked in the evening everybody will come up with a plan of their own and will correct everything with pretty. tagging along with the expedition is our county should look ski both the son of the organizer and the youngest member of the group with 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 his collection. this is a bison horn. preserved because it was kept in a natural freezer. thanks a lot ok let me show you how well done. work like that for another two days and

then we'll send you back heard. that a moment this one's quite interesting it's a mammoth it's tensile points are divided into three sections which points to its very old age such place are often found in early elephants. the only number 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 isn't trunks were smaller than 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 over hunting. the last moments left in the late pleistocene a pauper. today

visitors are free to take a stroll in the park dating back to the place to seeing era it's the result of the efforts of scientists. in fenced off one hundred sixty square kilometers of forest tundra shrubs lakes and swamps the park is situated seventy kilometers from the expeditions field camp in a coastal is northeast the arctic ocean is only one hundred fifty kilometers away. but the question of the water in the bog that was here fifteen years ago never dried up today there is grass here. of course is because grass when it is the least twenty twenty five centimeters long to figure for bison is fourteen centimeters it can be assume therefore that by some nibbled at the lower grass level as the trail behind the horses. zimm off a mystery reconstruct what he calls the mammoth step. this ecosystem was

predominant in the arctic of the late place 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 tundra the ecosystem of mt steps in the north has completely changed and she would you think today's climate to you would suit mammoth steps again i can see my minds are animals creating pastures for themselves would you do this in boston haven't seen one another for twelve thousand years but their genetic memory tells them after just a couple months of victory do you know one another i do you will recall the mammoth two you 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 back 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 caught lives near one wants to share his secrets with the other. reason 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 obviously i've got some secrets to keep what you need in his job his determination. the first step is a careful inspection of the steep slopes from a boat to molly and is a tributary of the river a column on each spring rain and water from melted snow flood the tributary over flowing water washes the bank away forcing permafrost retreat as a result big chunks of rock tumble down into the water to expose ice bound niches

deep inside. the mcdonald's not first of all you must know what it looks like. you should look forward everywhere. i dream about finding a mammoth goal or perhaps my aim here ok 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 to come sing. with a great stroke of luck feel the has found a tusk of impressive sides. of the going on this one is easy to carry it anyways above thirty kilograms. of.

rain has put work at the burial site to an abrupt halt life in the county has come to a standstill. cultures that so much are definitely a huge visitor share our time to visit friends in the absence of a peace process the palestinians will ask the united nations to upgrade their current observer status to that a full member state. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations or the day.

when there was a lot of sunshine to cut the grass and flowers grow stronger with each passing day . when the icy nation with the bison had been found melted away mummified animal was instantly moved into an ice house and we were about to enter a unique place but it's a gift people from the northern climate permafrost makes it possible to store food if it's a remarkable place there's nothing special about this small ice house but it is unique nonetheless now we get to see something even more exciting in science. the

car door and sells the ice house will hollowed out by hand inside an enormous ice formation the walls and floor i'm a device each year there sprayed with water ventilation is checked at the same time this makes it possible to maintain the low temperature and humidity. it's been usually warm this summer in chicago a war that argued the 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 but i knew you would look at the 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 quickly suffocated many others have theories of their

own. sure it might have died when the spinal cord the skull was suddenly fractured. in other words it might have been buried in the falling rock. 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 had been severely damaged i do not work as a crack at the bottom of the boat. and that means that the skull must have suffered a serious injury. either this happened after its death or it was because of its stance. chances are something helped it landed a natural trap where it's possible. we know that lions were around here at the time and it's true permafrost has an excellent job of preserving the bison soft tissues hair and even characteristics smell. some pretty strong smell there yes it smells like

a cow from just. as far as can be seen there are no major injuries of the tyson's body according to a tentative assessment the bison died during the pleistocene period its body has spent around thirty thousand years in the forest. lord scientists are delighted to see that here my son is in the sort of environment that existed thousands of years ago. some of them working on the bank today. he would and they're out to get as much information as they can when they're on the frontline as it were. the summer heat has 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. would be with me this is where the nominally poison was found we need to establish when and how the animal delayed and the natural environment

that was typical of that. period where we interact with you will 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 where a speech forms there when the climate became warmer. or she was disposed to this is pete here you can find anything you like draws insects and little craig such perfect was more than. the bison may have been in a bog 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 or in a. puddle 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 across. the lake with riddle's as the bison was in

a nice situation in one of the pits top players one thing is crystal clear it was not a natural death otherwise insects wouldn't eat and not with my son's body scientists speculate that after the bison died merge quickly enveloped called in and saved it from predators in the natural deep freeze prevented it from decomposition. was and was not is all disposable but i'll avoid being swept away by floodwaters and brought here. or the news here that it's most of being too weak to resist the flood at that for when they saw you i thought also the small amount of detail points to a building process is about i sure it was their voices body was in fact in a swamp when he was about so emotive droned it avoids you.

ancient fossils mouth tusks found in this area a unique materials the bun called. this is a standard but workshop it contains a wealth of natural specimens and manmade you can see. the moment we are bigger mammoth tusks more than any other bones you know. they're valuable if only because they were underground for thousands of years before somebody chanced upon them or them would you know and the objects we make from them will survive for hundreds of years to delight people. therefore we treasure mammoth tusks of. bone causes cancer fold 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 a lot of money really all of the world's monex connoisseurs and both the collectors

owns additional figurines of mammoths made from toss. the moment the mammoth tusks and fossils are best preserved in permafrost out of the woody frozen earth begins flowing with it just decomposes the what's going to slow the ship but just this residing in permafrost like this one are absolutely satisfied when the wood sort of and she's. 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 to your coots and their city is enough laboratory attracts scientists college students from all over the world. they're 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 and there is international projects. where they live is that for a player and as well that where you go to school that is that is that this is a bit different than that and that is the lack. of. pleistocene 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 books. these young elks are in for a long journey from a small pen to freedom. easy easier. if you know where to show ok there you go. future. behavior. for that's it. that well television is if

they've been around for a month one of the else was very sick and we had to work hard to nursing back to health. now that there are fewer mosquitoes here their acts can be released into the pork making. place to seem pock is at the very heart of the 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 care. is in office always at the wheel on such occasions. this is not the first time that he has used a small motor boat to transport tunnels. near the place where i live is the world's least excess symbol for economically speaking or the method of transport costs more

than anywhere else we brought the musk buffaloes by motor boat from rango island. the young adults of become accustomed to humans and learn to trust them for that reason make patiently wait for the chance to go free. park staff carry the animals by hand from the bank to the pan. before they are let into the wild it will go through a period of a climatized nation. so his him off believes that the devils can survive in these rigorous conditions moreover they can radically change the landscape. a clue that should be an open landscape he would scatter troops bush is for trees tiny brusa lakes and trimmed

grass why do they mow the grass and parks you may ask that's because there were millions of early wars in the old days your that there were you haven't the brass was their staple food it'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 attracted namath's and other have those. early man quickly followed suit. today most of the people living in this rugged region of mine precious metals.

this is a gold mining field in chukotka in russia's far east ironically it is because of the gold industry that now months of being found scraping off the top layer of permafrost in search of mineral wealth reveals these prehistoric names but sometimes they emerge naturally. united that 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 on the whole the sudden conference begins spearing it out so you can shoot in the end the object shows up in the midst of tundra as in full for the pace of several millimeters a year. over the course of many you. here's 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.

these remains of a woolly rhino cave bear bison among the five horse legs and a complete one year old mammoth all give us an idea of what these prehistoric animals look like. the fossils of primitive predators and herbivores provide unique material for studying animal d.n.a. from the ice age. the number five job called kabul is widely different from all known fragments of prehistoric goofed animals. scientists of concluded that it is the world's most complete mummy of a bison it is much better preserved than flu baby the famous mummy of a bison found in alaska. at the summer i am station i was since this is

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 caucus for boys and we can get an idea of what it looked like what was inside its body and what he ate shortly before his death and much more. the next scientific expedition to this cold harsh environment may well result in another subsection of find remains of a cave lying been found close to the site where the chicago bulls died. the. cooling is the latest in science and technology from

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