Ice Age Mystery Deepens as Three Mastodons Are Discovered in Peru

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Recently the remains of three Ice Age mastodons were recovered from the Peruvian Andes mountains. The researchers don’t know exactly how old the remains are just yet, but say they are from the pleistocene period.

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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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