Khroma, the baby mammoth found frizen in Russia in 2009. It was male and had one or two months.
Paleontologist Lacombat Frederic, one of the scientists who participated in exploration, said the creature had milk teeth and internal organs were preserved perfectly.
Moreover, its stomach contained milk and muscles were still red. For the specialist, it would seem that he had died two days ago.
Moreover, the images collected by the scanner showed that the mammoth baby’s spine was broken and displaced pelvis, which suggests to scientists who maybe have died from a fall.
In the months following additional tests be conducted to learn more about his short life and also their parental period. The latter will be studied through de DNA from the mother through breast milk found in the digestive tract.
The little creature, which is blamed for more than 50 thousand years, is part of the exhibition Mammouths & Cie, in the southeastern France.
Paleontologist Lacombat Frederic, one of the scientists who participated in exploration, said the creature had milk teeth and internal organs were preserved perfectly.
Moreover, its stomach contained milk and muscles were still red. For the specialist, it would seem that he had died two days ago.
Moreover, the images collected by the scanner showed that the mammoth baby’s spine was broken and displaced pelvis, which suggests to scientists who maybe have died from a fall.
In the months following additional tests be conducted to learn more about his short life and also their parental period. The latter will be studied through de DNA from the mother through breast milk found in the digestive tract.
The little creature, which is blamed for more than 50 thousand years, is part of the exhibition Mammouths & Cie, in the southeastern France.
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