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three volunteers for your media project a free media gun to our teeth dot com. this is r.t. from moscow for a good evening for me kevin zero in let me take you through our top stories if you will the i.m.f. predicts a grim forecast for the global economy this comes as europe's debt stakes are not from italy's credit downgrade today while the us sometimes think used to be too hasty comes. in palestinian bid for you in recognition just a couple of days away israel and its key partner the u.s. if you show their opposition israeli military forces are against palestinian protesters while allowing israeli settlers to demonstrate on the occupied territory . also in new york president obama six to boost libya's new leadership of the
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general assembly by pointing out progress in the country the questions over whether nato is actions in libya complied with the new flu plan. next to take of the fathers corner of eastern russia where archaeologists have been on earth and well preserved remains of ice age map. 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 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 the truth
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the scientific community will get an intriguing billions to what life on earth was like thousands of years ago. expedition will travel across western chukotka and northeast india kuta a wealth of remains of extinct animals dating back to the ice age is hidden beneath the permafrost and i'm a fossils tusks of the found here however the 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 and only two bison have been found over the years one in alaska and the other here you know from
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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 ray of 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 place 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 for mankind. material which in this organic to tissue called ten team is really remarkable stuff a kicker for a few and this is the last front tooth from a mammoth. it was an extraordinary animal the people who live thousands of years ago were aware of its useful properties either way they used the stuff to make the first tools utensils even works of awesome people have always been fascinated by
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the material from. which a cult courageous village of a new risk 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 site where the primitive bison was found snippets of the right to show to do what the man who steers the boat tells you it was a propeller made brush against the river bed in shallow places happens don't panic 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 plates for the purpose but explorers should be aware of the difficulties that local rivers have in store. there are
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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 so valuable 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
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the fine was immediately reported to fyodor should love skiing he is officially licensed to collect paleontological objects in this area it was field or an organized expedition and prepared a camp for field research. but she wouldn't know shit today i think that we need to inspect the place and just relax a bit before we would like to move to that side because. the beauty smolder it you work 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 car they 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 his collection. this is a bison horn. preserved because it was kept in a natural freezer. thanks a lot of kerry let me say well done. for another two days and then we'll send you
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back home. at the moment this one's quite interesting it's a mammoth as 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 but their tusks a much larger. it is speculated that such mammoths lived in groups lead time older females current theories suggest that they became extinct due to climate change and the hunting. the last moments left in the late pleistocene epoch.
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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 gazing off in fenced off one hundred sixty square kilometers of forest tundra shrubs lakes and swamps the park is situated seventy kilometers from the expedition's 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 a few thousand 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 if you are for bison is fourteen centimeters it can be assumed therefore that bison nibbled at the lower grass level as the trail behind a horse's. zimm of a mr reconstruct what he calls the mammoth step. this ecosystem was predominant in
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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 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 of mara blizzards i.q. and seen my minds are 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 mean i will recall the memories too are there they count that's the least thing we want they'll do are
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everything around here. two members of the expedition i live missy and feel just share the bark of their job is to look for a mammoth tusks eleven field who are together almost all the time when it comes to looking for fossils they parted ways neither one wants to share his secrets with the other. creature there is steep slopes zero on the bank everybody knows that mammoth tells could be found here although many people are on the lookout if you actually find any have 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 you it is a tributary of the river column on each spring rain and water from the melted snow flood the tree the tree over flowing water washes the bank away forcing permafrost to retreat as
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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 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 trust contact. with a great stroke of luck builder has found a tusk of impressive size. going around for this one is easy to carry it only weighs about thirty kilograms.
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one there was a lot of sunshine in the grass and follows close stronger with each passing day. when the icy nice with the bison to be found melted away on the fied animal was instantly moved into an ice house and we think 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. 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 and sand an enormous ice formation the walls and floor a mate of ice each year there sprayed with water until ation is checked at the same time this makes it possible to maintain the low temperature and humidity. if your
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plane experion usually warm this summer in chicago. by the permafrost layer 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 we have. specialists instantly try to find out what caused the animal's death the bison tail stands upright instead of being pressed against the body this is in direct sign may indicate that quickly suffocated many others have theories of their own. so we had michael up with with the only sure that 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 one more also it could have fallen through a crack and. when we were moving it into this cell i was saddened to see that one
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of its horns have 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 stacked. chances are something helped it landed a 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. pretty strong smell there yes it smells like a cow from just. as far as can be see 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. ward scientists are delighted to
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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 go there ups get as much information as they can and when he was there on the front line as it was. in the summer heat has radically changed the shape of the cliff where the prehistoric bison was found to scientists a glance at the boat not far off on the five mammoths 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. periods without enough to eat you will agree to be. the cleft contains clay with peach 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
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cold periods where as peat formed when the climate became warmer. door she was disturbed again this is peat here you can find anything you like dross insects and little twigs which 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 piece. is also on the other side of the bank with them. but. do you think the ripples in this formation date back to those times and i'm sure they do this highlights the relief of the period between the period when our bison lived abroad. in a lake with riddle's and it. the bison was in a nice situation 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 the mud quickly enveloped its polly and saved it from
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predators and the natural deep freeze prevented it from decomposition. was was not . disposable the taleban have been swept away by floodwaters and brought him. with its most of being too weak to resist a flood forney's like i thought also the small amount of peace here points to a budding procedures visible at your. body was in fact in a swarm. so you might have grown in it but boy you. ancient fossils mouth tusks found in this area are unique with terrell's collars. this is a standard but workshop it contains a wealth of natural stress a man's a man made figurines. the moment we are vere mammoth
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tusks more than any other bones look at a point they are valuable if only because they were underground for thousands of years before somebody chanced upon them. the material and the objects we made from them will survive for hundreds of years to delight people to. play therefore we treasure mammoth tusks. causes cancer fold to make mistakes a faulty cut cannot be done all compositions are unique works of all it is impossible to fake will imitate each object costs a lot of money nearly all of the world's monex connoisseurs and both intellects untrue dish and. the greens of mammoths made tusks the moment the mammoth tusks and fossils are preserved in permafrost the woody frozen earth begins throwing it just decomposes of the earth that was in the photo but just ceres riding in permafrost
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like this one are absolutely tapestries here with we 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 myler river it takes four and a half hours by air to get to the nearest city zeroth laboratory attracts scientists college students from all over the world. they're interested in is enough studies of permafrost anomalous in a valley 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 that for a player as well but where you go to school of a city is a bit different. now and that's the way.
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plasticine poc 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 the evils. these young elks are in for a long journey from a small pen to freedom. easy easier to take you forward to showcase there you go. if you get your. ok. looking forward that's it if pick up that well television if they've been around for a month one of the elks was very sick and we had to work hard to know our scene back to health. now that there are fewer mosquitoes here there it's going to be released into the park taking.
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place to seen 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 a transfer to the motorboat with utmost care at. him off is always at the wheel on such occasions. this is not the first time that he has used the small most of it to transport tunnels. 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 if we brought the most buffaloes by motorboat from rango island. the young elk so become accustomed to humans and learn to trust them for that
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reason they patiently wait for the chance to go free. cut staff to carry the animals by hand from the bank to the pen. but before they're let into the wild they will go through a period of a climatized nation. people. says his him off believes that the devil is conservative in these rigorous conditions moreover they can radically change the landscape. of a clue it should be an open landscape with scatter tribes whooshes for trees tiny bruce a lake scent tree in the grass why do they mowed grass and parks you may ask that's because there were millions of thirty wars in the old days you want to throw up at the brass was there 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.
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so cold arctic steps existed in the north thousands of years ago an abundance of food attracted mamas 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 and to cut cut and russia's far east i want to create 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.
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people don't know why permafrost sometimes looks deformed. 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 conference 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. these remains of a woolly rhino case there 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 herbivores provide unique
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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 preserve the blue 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 a for boys or is or 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. if
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