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TOMSK, Jul
19– RIA Tomsk. Paleontologists of Tomsk State University (TSU) organized online platform for fund raising for expedition to one of the largest locations of
mammoths in Eurasia which helps to learn more about the reasons of extinction
of these animals, and also for creation of movie about paleontologists work,
developer of the platform Ilya Myasnikov reported.
Earlier it
was reported that in the summer of 2015 TSU paleontologists worked in the
natural boundary the Wolf Mane in the Novosibirsk region where mammoths
refugium was found (one of the last habitats). Here animals had "mud
bath" and vitamin "sanatorium" where they could find food with
the necessary minerals. Besides, it was succeeded to prove that mammoths lived
in the refugium along with people.
"Funds
are raised for expedition and for the movie about work of paleontologists – for
all cycle of works, beginning from payment of fuels and lubricants and
finishing with payment for work for the movie. <…> The full sum on
expedition is 420 thousand rubles, 62 thousand are already collected – all this
from private donations", – the interlocutor of the agency told.
www.youtube.com"Paleo investigations: "cemetery" of mammoths – the Wolf Mane". Movie of TSU
He
specified that the movie will continue the film series telling about researches
of paleontologists. "Of course, versions about disappearance of mammoths,
their destiny will be told. There will be also elements of reconstruction of
their life – but a little. The movie is intended for the most wide range of the
audience, especially as now the simple audience with their erudition sometimes
is ahead of scientists", – Myasnikov added.
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According
to the press service of TSU, only during excavation of 2015 in the Wolf Mane
more than 600 fragments and the whole bones ̆ and teeth of a woolly mammoth
were revealed, and from the middle of the 20th century the remains of not less
than 55 mammoths were found. Today less than 3% of the cemetery are opened.
"For
half a century several scientific hypotheses were made. (Scientists) tried to
explain how this cemetery of mammoths appeared. One considered that animals
drowned during floods, others – that they were exterminated by people.
<…> Also there was now a hope that the riddle will manage to be
solved", – the press service quotes the head of the expedition Sergey
Leshchinsky.