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 of 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. 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 that much more is left of this one this is why it is more valuable for research which is. 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 the park that period came to an end some eleven thousand years ago at approx