checkpoints from local control. of nato troops to keep the peace the serbian majority in the north feel their rights are being violated by the mostly albanian. frozen expanses of russia's far east where archaeologists have been finding well preserved remains of ice age mammals. the shore of the seal before it's. one of the most extreme regions of russia you can get to the most remote parts and 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 because they have been led to believe if it turns out to be true

the scientific community will get an intriguing glimpse to what life 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 none the fossils and tusks have been found here. however the find that the researches are off to is something special a prehistoric bison completely mummified by nature. 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 that 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 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 pleistocene the park 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 from a kind. of material which in this organic tooth tissue called ten team is really remarkable stuff to keep it for a few and this is the launch front tooth from a mammoth. it was an extraordinary animal the people who live thousands of years ago were aware of its useful properties. they use the stuff to make the first tools

utensils even works of on people have always been fascinated by the material that we thank you. but you could kill regions village of a new risk as a population of about five hundred and to situations on the banks of the mali a newly 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 site where the primitive bison was found. to divide you can be sure to do what the man who steers the boat tells you it was the propeller made brush against the river bed in shallow places but if i happens don't panic but 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 lightweight 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 company 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 in. the expedition camps out on a patch of land by the river. the cliff where the bison mummy was found is across it it's some local saw 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 fide

corpse the fine 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. she would know she is 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 view to smolder it he worked in the evening everybody will come up with a plan of their own and will correct everything with pretty cute. tagging along with the expedition is our county should love ski both the son of the organizer and the youngest member of the group before 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 arkady let me shake your hands well done. work like that for another two days and then we'll send you back home. at the moment this one squat interesting it's a mammoth it's still 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 north america. they isn't trunks were smaller than those of modern day elephants but their tusks were 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 ipad.

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. who fenced off one hundred sixty square kilometers of forests tundra shrubs lakes and swamps the park is situated seventy kilometers from the expedition's field camp in your courses ne 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 is 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 the bison nibbled at the lower grass level as the trail behind a horse's. zimm of aim is to reconstruct what he calls the mouth step.

this ecosystem was predominant in the arctic of the late place to seen huge herds of large herbivores such as mammoths woolly rhinos reindeer 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 and to address the ecosystem of mt steps in the north had completely changed and she would you feel today's climate to you would suit mammoth steps admirably i.q. and seen my mind saw animals creating pastures for themselves when you did these horses and bison hadn'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 and you will recall the mammoth two are there they come that's the least thing we want they'll do are

everything around here. two members of the expedition i live missy and field of their job is to look for a mammoth tusks eleven field who are together almost all the time but when it comes to looking for fossils they part ways neil one wants to share his secrets with the other. there is steep slopes all along the bank everybody knows that can 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 this job is 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 tributaries 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 knishes 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's goal. that's my aim you know 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 tusk come to. with a great stroke of luck has found a tusk of impressive size. this one is easy to carry it only weighs above thirty kilograms.

rain has brought work at the burial site to an abrupt halt life in the camp has come to a standstill. the issues that so much are different and there is a huge music to share her mind is a friend 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. news today violence is once again flared up. saying these are the images the world has

been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are on the day. when there was a lot of sunshine in the grass and flowers close stronger with each passing day. when the icy nice 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 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 and cells of the ice house were hollowed out by hand inside an enormous ice formation the walls and floor i'm a device each year they're sprayed with water ventilation is checked at the same time this makes it possible to maintain the low temperature and humidity. and that you quote it's been usually warm this summer in chicago. by permafrost 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 it 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 smeared muck about which was only sure that they might have died when the spinal cord or skull was suddenly fractured. in other words it might have been buried under 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 had been severely damaged i do you know rourke there's 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 the cause of it's to. look at the bullet chances are something helped it 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 hair and even characteristic smell no that's a 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 bisons body according to a tentative assessment the bison died during the pleistocene period its body has spent around thirty thousand years in permafrost than the big usual florida scientists are delighted to see that here the bison is in the sort of environment that existed thousands of years ago but they will do what you want to some of them are working on the bank today. he would go there out to get as much information as they can and when he was there on the front line as it were and what he would do. the summer heat was radically changed the shape of the cliff what the prehistoric bison was. found two scientists of lunch at that boat not far off on the fied mammoths burial place. would be if this is where the moment fully poison was found

we need to establish when and how the animal died and the natural environment there was typical of that period with do you agree. 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 when the climate became warm. it was just this is peat here you can find anything you like draws insects and little twigs wished but it was more than. the bison may have been in a bog like this one at you. and we'll need to find out whether this kind of peas. is also on the other side of the bank or. 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. in

a lake with ripples of 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 the bisons body scientists speculate that off to the bison died mud quickly enveloped his body and saved it from predators in the natural deep freeze prevented it from decomposition. was. disposable the tele body might have been swept away by floodwaters and brought him . its most of being too weak to resist the flood at that for. at that also the small amount of peat hit points to process it is about watching it with the body was in fact in a swamp. so he might have drowned in it. ancient

fossils now with tusks found in this area are unique materials for bun covers. this is a standard but. it contains a wealth of natural specimens and manmade figurines. tusks more than any other bones. there are valuable if only because they were underground for thousands of years before somebody chanced upon them. 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 qantas to make mistakes a faulty cut cannot be undone all compositions are unique works of art it is impossible to fake or imitate each object costs

a lot of money nearly all of the world's monex connoisseurs and wealthy collectors and traditional. the greens of mammoths made tusks the moment the mammoth tusks and fossils are best preserved in permafrost the earth begins thawing it just decomposes. but just ceres riding in the permafrost like this one are absolutely intact because here is where the with a sort of misused. this is one of the permafrost areas surrogate is him off a scientist founded the northeastern research station the rocky bank of the river it takes four and a half hours by ed to get to the nearest city. tree attracts scientists college students from all over the world. they're interested in zim of studies of permafrost and moments and value 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 i live is actually claim or own as well but where you go to school that is. nothing that's the way. pleistocene 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 ovals. these young elks are in for a long journey from a small pen to freedom. which is easy if you take the word shell k. there you go. with your paper. here. for best

fit. that well time if you don't use it if they've been around for a month one of the elks was very sick and we had to work hard to nor seem back to health. now that there are fewer mosquitoes here their skin to be released into the pork. place to seem 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 most cat. is in office always at the wheel on such occasions. this is not the first time that he has used this small motor boat to transport tunnels. yet 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 musk buffaloes by motor boat from bronco island. the young adults have become accustomed to humans and learn to trust them for that reason they patiently wait for the chance to go free. puc staff carry the animals by hand from the bank to the pen. but the full they are led into the wild it will go through a period of a climatized ation. so gaze him off believes that the bulls can survive in these rigorous conditions more of a they can radically change the landscape. over a clue that should be an open landscape with scatter tribes bush is for trees tiny

bruce a lake sent the tree into grass why do they mow the grass in the parks you may ask that's because there were millions of early wars in the old days your that their way up at the press 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 numbness and other have with those. early man quickly followed suit. and. today most of the people living in this rugged region of mine precious metals.

this is a gold mining field into called cut and rushes far east ironically it is the cause 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. you know 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 and all the sudden permafrost begins spirit out in the end the object shows up in the midst of tundra. at a 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 and herbivores provide unique material for studying animal d.n.a. from the ice age. the number five to called kabul is widely different from old 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 the blue baby the famous mummy of a bison found in alaska. at the summer am station i was in a sense this is

a true scientific sensation such fines are absolutely unique but when something similar is found it is just fragments in most cases but this is a perfect carcass of a museum we can get an idea of what it looked like what was inside his 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 sensational find remains of a cave lion been found close to the site where the chilcote kubel died.

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