Finally some color ..Hopefully included in the next jursasic park movie.
Just imagine the scene of a green field full of grazing red haired mammoths !!!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... oolly.html
wooley mammoths were gingers?
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wooley mammoths were gingers?
Regards Ernie
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circumspice
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Re: wooley mammoths were gingers?
Is that animal as small as it appears to be? If it was 50-60 years old at the time of death, it must be a mature specimen. How do they account for it's size? Island dwarfism? So many questions, so few answers. 
"Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test." ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
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"Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, and, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer." ~ Alexander Pope
Re: wooley mammoths were gingers?
I thought the same thing ..but they explain that they only have a portion of the animal.two of the four legs and front part of the body .The rest was above the frozen layer and most likely scavenged by animals ..or Desnovians ha ha hacircumspice wrote:Is that animal as small as it appears to be? If it was 50-60 years old at the time of death, it must be a mature specimen. How do they account for it's size? Island dwarfism? So many questions, so few answers.
Regards Ernie
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uniface
Re: wooley mammoths were gingers?
Their hair color's been known for 100 years+
The Explorers' Club in NYC ate steaks from one found still frozen in Siberia at one of their banquets -- in 1910, if memory serves. Theodore Roosevelt & Co.
The Explorers' Club in NYC ate steaks from one found still frozen in Siberia at one of their banquets -- in 1910, if memory serves. Theodore Roosevelt & Co.
Re: wooley mammoths were gingers?
Yes of course..how could I have missed it..Looks like Hollywood is Woolly savvy.uniface wrote:Their hair color's been known for 100 years+
The Explorers' Club in NYC ate steaks from one found still frozen in Siberia at one of their banquets -- in 1910, if memory serves. Theodore Roosevelt & Co.
Regards Ernie