00:00these are the remains of what paleontologists say are three ice age mastodons recovered from
00:09the peruvian andes mountains mastodons were large elephant-like creatures similar to woolly mammoths
00:14however mastodons are 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 from the
00:24Pleistocene period however they add they believe they're possibly as young as just 11 000 years
00:29old one of the recovered specimens is of particular interest to paleontologists as it's nearly complete
00:35and could be the best preserved fossil of its kind found in peru what's even more incredible is that
00:40all three of these large ice age remains were discovered in an extremely small area measuring
00:45only around two and a half acres experts believe that mastodons migrated from north america to south
00:50america in search of food as the climate changed around them peru has recently become a hotbed of
00:55paleontological discoveries with researchers recently finding a bevy of other prehistoric finds
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