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April 21, 2009
On A Very Small Mammoth
Daniel Fisher is a paleontologist at the University of Michigan who studies mammoths and their ice age relatives. He is also a son of my friend and teacher Loren Fisher. Daniel Fisher is part of a team studying the amazing remains of a 40,000 year old baby mammoth that a reindeer herder discovered two years ago on the Yamal Peninsula in northwestern Siberia.
That's Daniel Fisher on the left. The picture is from the University of Michigan's news release. So is this snippet concerning Fisher's research,
Extensive studies of a 40,000-year-old baby mammoth carcass discovered in Siberia two years ago validate techniques developed by University of Michigan paleontologist Daniel Fisher for extracting information about prehistoric pachyderms' lives from their teeth and tusks.
If you read the whole news release, you'll know about "her mother's milk in her intestines," what the fatty hump on the back of her neck tells Fisher and many other abnormally interesting things including evidence based speculation on how she died and why, once dead, she didn't decompose.
The baby mammoth is the subject of the cover story in next month's National Geographic magazine. If you prefer watching television to reading, you can watch a National Geographic program that features Fisher's work with the baby mammoth on Sunday, April 26 at 9 p.m. ET/PT) on the National Geographic Channel.
Posted by Duane Smith at April 21, 2009 10:42 AM | Read more on Science - General |
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