How the Ancient Elephant Mastodon Migrated, Expert Reveals

KOMPAS.com- About 13,200 years ago a mastodon, The elephant An ancient male died in a fight over a female in what is now Indiana, United States.

Now in a new analysis of its well-preserved fossils and tusks not only revealing how ancient elephant the 8 tonne adult died.

Recent analysis also reveals how the ancient elephant mastodon migratedwalking across North America.

Quoted from CNNTuesday (14/6/2022) mastodon fossils first discovered on a farm in 1998 by Kent and Janne Buesching who were mining peat on their property.

Archaeologists then excavated the fossilized remains of what became known as the Buesching mastodon.

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It is known that the mastodon skeleton is 2.7 meters high and 7.6 meters long. Ancient elephant fossils it has been studied since 2006.

But in a new study, researchers seem to have uncovered some of the latest things.

For example, the skull of a mastodon indicates that the mammal was killed by the tip of another male mastodon’s tusk.

The tip of the tusk pierced the right side of his skull.

According to a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesthe ancient elephant Mastodon Buesching also died about 160 km from its original area.

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