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today’s show is bigger bolder and way
Wilier than average welcome to
watchmojo.com installment we’re counting
down the five most fascinating things
that you probably didn’t know about
mammoths oh look Manny a mammoth ooh
somebody pinch me hey hey this fat one
looks just like you
number five mini mammoths were a real
thing what we found here is a partial
skeleton of a woolly mammoth mammoths
are so well known for being huge
the very word has evolved into an
adjective to describe anything that’s
very big well can this mammoth Russian
who’s already been nicknamed the
Siberian Express wreak havoc among the
professional heavyweight ranks but a
mammoth misconception about mammoths is
that they were all massive it weren’t
male Woolies were up to 3.5 meters tall
and weighed approximately 6 tons which
is about the same size as today’s
elephants there was the Imperial mammoth
which weighed over 10 tons and the
Songhua River mammoth which sometimes
topped 15 tonnes but for all the bigger
breeds there were some tiny types as
well the cretan dwarf mammoth is the
smallest that ever existed standing only
around 1 metre tall and weighing roughly
300 kilograms or 660 pounds do you think
the mini mammoth was fond of jumbo
shrimp
number four mammoth meat was edible in
the 1800’s just picture a man at stake
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according to a report carried in an 1872
edition of the New York Times a French
expedition to the North Pole was partly
fueled by finding cooking and eating
mammoths I don’t want you to that’s
amazing is wrong yeah yeah the report
describes how quote frozen mammoths were
found and that having been dead only a
few thousand years they were nicely
preserved and so they were soon broiled
roasted and baked the overall tone of
the article leaves at least a small
question mark over the claim however as
it also describes the undoubtedly
perilous adventure as quote pleasant and
easy Russian zoologist Alexei – Knopf
said he once tried a bit of the meat and
said it was just what you’d expect
disgusting
with the distinct taste of something
left in the freezer way too long back in
1970 when we dug out a mammoths leg we
gave some pieces to dogs and they ate
them of course both the taste and smell
of the mammoths meet a quite foul and
it’s not advisable to eat it number
three the many uses of mammoth tusks
it’s common knowledge that one can
determine the age of a tree by counting
the Rings in its trunk but it’s less
common knowledge that similar
information can be taken from a mammoth
tusk mammoth ivory records major lines
for each year of a mammoths life and
finer lines for months and weeks experts
can determine which season a mammoth
died in by studying the marks and work
out the creatures general health – of
course not all tusks are available for
modern-day inspection as many were used
to manufacture tools in ancient
civilizations indeed the first known
musical instruments were made out of
mammoth ivory a flute over 40,000 years
old was found in southern Germany in
2012 I try to play some small tunes for
you number to trade in mammoth ivory is
legal and lucrative the hailstones are
looking to put money in the bank by
finding valuable fossils in the
permafrost
the international trade of elephant
ivory is illegal but mammoth tests are
allowed on the world market outside of
Africa with both supply and demand
increasing year by year as the world’s
coldest spots continue to thaw through
global warming the discovery of
well-preserved mammoth carcasses is
becoming a reasonably regular occurrence
and usually the tusks are the best kept
bit estimates say that as much as 60
tonnes of Siberian mammoth tusks is
being exported out of Russia every year
and nearly all of it goes to China top
grade ivory is worth around $400 per
pound and a typical woolly mammoth tusk
weighs around a hundred pounds that’s
$40,000 before you’ve even started on
the second dusk when she got the tusks
appraised in 2005 it was worth about
$25,000 it’s sung like a one-of-a-kind
item number one the mammoth will rise
again I’m literally holding a plot line
from Jurassic Park in my hand probably
the most significant aspect of finding
well-preserved carcasses across the
Arctic tundra is the hope that the
discoveries will inspire the extinction
of the species according to National
Geographic the revival of a mammoth is
no longer mere fantasy scientists are
working to replicate DNA by drying cell
nuclei from the more well-preserved
mammoths and combining it with the
genetic information of Asian elephants
which are considered biologically closer
to the mammoths than their African
counterparts the cells would then be
transferred into an elephant womb and
we’d wait for scientifically induced
nature to take its course a so-called
cold resistant elephant is expected
before the genuine article but
apparently it isn’t unrealistic to
expect real-life Woolies to roam the
coldest regions of the earth within the
next century do you think you’re
actually going to be able to clone a
mammoth but that is soon but I hope that
at least our children will see live
planet so how about you would you eat an
ancient frozen mammoths steak
no for more legal and lucrative toptenz
and jumbo shrimp top fives be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com I need to be
alone for a while
you go on ahead I’ll catch up
[Music]
today’s show is bigger bolder and way
Wilier than average welcome to
watchmojo.com installment we’re counting
down the five most fascinating things
that you probably didn’t know about
mammoths oh look Manny a mammoth ooh
somebody pinch me hey hey this fat one
looks just like you
number five mini mammoths were a real
thing what we found here is a partial
skeleton of a woolly mammoth mammoths
are so well known for being huge
the very word has evolved into an
adjective to describe anything that’s
very big well can this mammoth Russian
who’s already been nicknamed the
Siberian Express wreak havoc among the
professional heavyweight ranks but a
mammoth misconception about mammoths is
that they were all massive it weren’t
male Woolies were up to 3.5 meters tall
and weighed approximately 6 tons which
is about the same size as today’s
elephants there was the Imperial mammoth
which weighed over 10 tons and the
Songhua River mammoth which sometimes
topped 15 tonnes but for all the bigger
breeds there were some tiny types as
well the cretan dwarf mammoth is the
smallest that ever existed standing only
around 1 metre tall and weighing roughly
300 kilograms or 660 pounds do you think
the mini mammoth was fond of jumbo
shrimp
number four mammoth meat was edible in
the 1800’s just picture a man at stake
[Music]
according to a report carried in an 1872
edition of the New York Times a French
expedition to the North Pole was partly
fueled by finding cooking and eating
mammoths I don’t want you to that’s
amazing is wrong yeah yeah the report
describes how quote frozen mammoths were
found and that having been dead only a
few thousand years they were nicely
preserved and so they were soon broiled
roasted and baked the overall tone of
the article leaves at least a small
question mark over the claim however as
it also describes the undoubtedly
perilous adventure as quote pleasant and
easy Russian zoologist Alexei – Knopf
said he once tried a bit of the meat and
said it was just what you’d expect
disgusting
with the distinct taste of something
left in the freezer way too long back in
1970 when we dug out a mammoths leg we
gave some pieces to dogs and they ate
them of course both the taste and smell
of the mammoths meet a quite foul and
it’s not advisable to eat it number
three the many uses of mammoth tusks
it’s common knowledge that one can
determine the age of a tree by counting
the Rings in its trunk but it’s less
common knowledge that similar
information can be taken from a mammoth
tusk mammoth ivory records major lines
for each year of a mammoths life and
finer lines for months and weeks experts
can determine which season a mammoth
died in by studying the marks and work
out the creatures general health – of
course not all tusks are available for
modern-day inspection as many were used
to manufacture tools in ancient
civilizations indeed the first known
musical instruments were made out of
mammoth ivory a flute over 40,000 years
old was found in southern Germany in
2012 I try to play some small tunes for
you number to trade in mammoth ivory is
legal and lucrative the hailstones are
looking to put money in the bank by
finding valuable fossils in the
permafrost
the international trade of elephant
ivory is illegal but mammoth tests are
allowed on the world market outside of
Africa with both supply and demand
increasing year by year as the world’s
coldest spots continue to thaw through
global warming the discovery of
well-preserved mammoth carcasses is
becoming a reasonably regular occurrence
and usually the tusks are the best kept
bit estimates say that as much as 60
tonnes of Siberian mammoth tusks is
being exported out of Russia every year
and nearly all of it goes to China top
grade ivory is worth around $400 per
pound and a typical woolly mammoth tusk
weighs around a hundred pounds that’s
$40,000 before you’ve even started on
the second dusk when she got the tusks
appraised in 2005 it was worth about
$25,000 it’s sung like a one-of-a-kind
item number one the mammoth will rise
again I’m literally holding a plot line
from Jurassic Park in my hand probably
the most significant aspect of finding
well-preserved carcasses across the
Arctic tundra is the hope that the
discoveries will inspire the extinction
of the species according to National
Geographic the revival of a mammoth is
no longer mere fantasy scientists are
working to replicate DNA by drying cell
nuclei from the more well-preserved
mammoths and combining it with the
genetic information of Asian elephants
which are considered biologically closer
to the mammoths than their African
counterparts the cells would then be
transferred into an elephant womb and
we’d wait for scientifically induced
nature to take its course a so-called
cold resistant elephant is expected
before the genuine article but
apparently it isn’t unrealistic to
expect real-life Woolies to roam the
coldest regions of the earth within the
next century do you think you’re
actually going to be able to clone a
mammoth but that is soon but I hope that
at least our children will see live
planet so how about you would you eat an
ancient frozen mammoths steak
no for more legal and lucrative toptenz
and jumbo shrimp top fives be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com I need to be
alone for a while
you go on ahead I’ll catch up
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