Woolly Mammoths Resurfacing In Siberia

Huffington Post | Mar. 2, 2010 (Special Report)

A fantastic LA Times article details the recent proliferation of woolly mammoth bones in Siberia. As permafrost in the region thaws, entire villages subsist on trade in mammoth bones -- so much so that a new word has been coined: "mamontit, or "to mammoth" -- meaning, to go out in search of bones." Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Mar 2, 2010 - 9:42 PM PST
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Mar 2, 2010 - 9:44 PM PST
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 by Dwight Rousu - Mar. 3, 2010

Short, pointing to an LA times article. Interesting sidelight of global climate change.

Perhaps the old dinosaurs in the Senate should go meet the woolly mammoths in Siberia, and inquire why they are appearing in a period of global cooling.

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 by Kitab Moore - Mar. 5, 2010

I think that its pretty fair and the site that i found this on has many interesting stories.

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    Los Angeles Times by Megan K. Stack | Mar. 2, 2010 (Special Report)
    Reporting from Moscow - The beasts had long lain extinct and forgotten, embedded deep in the frozen turf, bodies swaddled in Earth's layers for thousands of years before ...
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