Detecting mammoth teeth proves giant giant animals once lived on Earth
22/03/2022 19:30 GMT+7
A construction worker accidentally found a mammoth’s giant tooth measuring up to 28 centimeters in length.
Justin Blauwet was surprised when he discovered the large object while working at a construction site in Iowa.
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The man noticed something unusually large, which at first he thought was a large block of rock. Justin Blauwet brought the ‘stone block’ back and brought it to a specialist for testing.
According to experts, this is a giant mammoth tooth. The tooth has a large size of 28x18x10 cm. Evidence shows that the prehistoric creature was huge in size, one of its teeth also weighed up to 5 kg.
Justin Blauwet often describes himself as a ‘nerd’, always interested in prehistoric creatures and fossils. He is delighted with the latest discovery related to mammoths.
“It’s not uncommon to find remains of a mammoth in Iowa, but it’s not uncommon to find a large tooth,” said Tiffany Adrain, a lecturer in paleontology at the University of Iowa.
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Tiffany Adrian estimates the tooth to be more than 20,000 years old. According to experts, this mammoth may have died at the age of 30.
“Based on the degree of wear and tear, the animal was probably in his 30s when he died,” said Chris Widga, of East Tennessee State University.
Mammoths roamed the frozen tundra of Europe and North America for 140,000 years, disappearing at the end of the Pleistocene. This was one of the largest animals of prehistoric times, a creature notorious at the time it lived.
Males are about 3.5 meters tall, while females are slightly smaller. The curved tusks are up to 5 meters long, and the underside has a shaggy undercoat up to 1 meter long.
Humans often hunted them for food and used their bones and tusks to make weapons and art items.
The mammoth tooth will be sent to the Sheldon Prairie Museum for display and preservation.
Meanwhile, a technology company Colossal Biosciences based in Dallas, USA is conducting research to revive the long-extinct mammoth using DNA from frozen fossils.
The company plans to use mammoth DNA that has been frozen in ice for thousands of years and combine it with modern genetic material from Asian elephants to create a hybrid animal that most closely resembles the creature. has gone extinct.
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