Mammoths - Giants of the Ice Age
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Published 2022-01-12
15,000 years ago our planet was inhabited by millions of mammoths. Their ancestors headed north from the savannas of Africa in a much earlier epoch and spread out over large portions of the globe. This migratory movement began in a warmer climatic phase, so when the Ice Age began the creatures were forced to perform one of the greatest feats of adaptation in the history of the earth. Dick Mol, the world-famous expert on mammoths, traces the original mammoths back to Namibia, trawls the bottom of the North Sea for mammoth fossils and, with the help of gold-diggers in northern Canada, digs up perfectly preserved mammoth bones from the permafrost.
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this guy is truly living his passion. lucky man.
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I could truly feel Dicks enthusiasm for mammoth fossils
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What an incredible landscape it must have been when these beautiful creatures were roaming!
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THE German guy gets so excited in this video, HE LOVES WHAT HE IS DOING...
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when you find human hunting instruments embedded in 15,000 year old mammoths, you sort of have to re-write the historical record a bit.
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My favorite Ice Age critters are still sabertooth cats but I loved finding mammoth fossils here in Florida. We don't have bones of the Whooly Mammoth but many Columbian Mammoth fossils. I was fortunate enough to work on several fossils sites comtaing these giants of the Pleistocene mega fauna and I also love studying the fossils of their cousins the Gomphotheres and mastodons. I recently spoke with Dr. Daniel Fisher at the University of Michigan about his latest research on Mammoth specimens from Siberia. This research is bringing to the public a greater awareness of these giants biology and life styles. Very excellent video.
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Great to feel the emotion this man has for these noble mammoths.
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Just goes to show that you don't need a college degree to be an expert in a particular field...the college educated guys seek out this guy's guidance...love it...that's a man who has truly earned his position in life...mad respect...🤟🏿😎👍🏿
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Amazing that such creatures were still roaming the Earth less than 5,000 years ago
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Is he insane? A woolie mammoth park! Millions of people would want to see it!! My gosh - what a teaching tool !!!
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We still find mammoths here in Alaska, because of the permafrost! You read about it in our papers, mostly stumbled across by excavators building homes!
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The cinematography is absolutely amazing and beautiful.
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My moms uncle who died in 1994 had what I believe was a Mammoth tusk he found in southern Minnesota in an area that later became a park. It was very straight and about 8 feet long. It was in a round clear tube when I saw it in 1994 and the surface was flaking like an old bar of soap left outside of a package for several years. He had a $10,000 tag on it as he had been trying to sell it for too much for years or decades. I saw it after he passed away and his son said that it was going to be donated to a museum.
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This is a excellent documentry and very informative I want to say a big thankyou to you for putting this on you tube anyone interested in mammoths should almost certainly watch this regards
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Your film is very informative. I am proud and excited to say that where I live in Southeastern Arizona we've got five Mammoth kills down here on the San Pedro. They found the first Clovis point down here and later Folsom. I often look through all the grass we have out here and imagine a big herd of Mammoth walking through it. Bring him back how does it region and some of the northern parts of the United States really could use a great grass mower like the mammoth.
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Thank you, the more we know, the more we can prepare for what is to come in the future. Such a treasure!
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I love this documentary. The only issue I have is that I have always been told that Mammoths are more closely related to Asian Elephants than the African species.
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I’ve seen a more recent report that said the last remaining mammoths were a herd on Alaskas Aleutian Islands. They died because of a lack of available fresh water. This was only 3-4000 years ago.
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Dr Grant Zazula is a legend!
