This became a real sensation - the age of the finds, of course, still has to be determined by the examination, but scientists already declare - they are not 40 thousand years old - these mammoths lived on the island some three thousand years ago and even found people
Expedition to Wrangel Island in search of the youngest mammoths on earth. Perhaps they were the last. Then the Egyptian pyramids were already standing. Just over three thousand years ago.
This tusk is a small tooth by mammoth standards. Only one and a half meters, you can even carry it away by hand. Its owner, although he lived to old age, was himself no more than a cow. And hence the sensational conclusion - mammoths have seen our era.
The mammoths that we are used to seeing in the museum are much older. They are forty thousand years old. And this may be two thousand years or even less. The exact age can be easily determined in the laboratory by the molars. They will tell you what these animals ate. You don't have to dig deep, the truth is on the surface. Or rather, the bones lie right on the ground, it is not easy to get to them.
The international expedition was in the teeth to find more than fifty tusks. All their owners survived to old age, which means they adapted to the harsh conditions.
Now the leading paleontologists from Russia, the USA and France need to find a compromise regarding the age of the finds and find out what drove here, to these harsh lands, the last mammoths living on the planet.
