00:00These are the remains of what paleontologists say are three Ice Age mastodons, recovered
00:08from the Peruvian Andes Mountains.
00:11Mastodons were large, elephant-like creatures, similar to woolly mammoths, however mastodons
00:15are recognizable as having flatter heads and straighter tusks than the mammoth.
00:19The researchers don't know exactly how old the remains are just yet, but say they're
00:23from the Pleistocene period, however they add they believe they're possibly as young
00:27as just 11,000 years old.
00:29One of the recovered specimens is of particular interest to paleontologists as it's nearly
00:34complete and could be the best preserved fossil of its kind found in Peru.
00:39What's even more incredible is that all three of these large Ice Age remains were discovered
00:42in an extremely small area, measuring only around 2.5 acres.
00:46Experts believe that mastodons migrated from North America to South America in search of
00:51food as the climate changed around them.
00:53Peru has recently become a hotbed of paleontological discoveries, with researchers recently finding
00:58a bevy of other prehistoric finds.
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