microrobert
05-10-2012, 08:20 PM
Identification of the world's smallest mammoth
The world's smallest mammoth has been discovered on Crete, and it's the size of a newborn baby elephant!
In 1904, some remarkable elephant fossils were unearthed on Cape Malekas on the island of Crete by Dorothea Bate, a famous fossil hunter. Some of these fossils appeared to be from a mammoth, a group of elephants that are distinct from those we now know. Mammoths differ from the other elephants in a number of ways, such as having long and gracefully curved tusks instead of straight tusks and a domed skull instead of a flat head.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/grrlscientist/2012/may/10/1
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The world's smallest mammoth has been discovered on Crete, and it's the size of a newborn baby elephant!
In 1904, some remarkable elephant fossils were unearthed on Cape Malekas on the island of Crete by Dorothea Bate, a famous fossil hunter. Some of these fossils appeared to be from a mammoth, a group of elephants that are distinct from those we now know. Mammoths differ from the other elephants in a number of ways, such as having long and gracefully curved tusks instead of straight tusks and a domed skull instead of a flat head.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/grrlscientist/2012/may/10/1
JCRbJZaOTUc