スミソニアン博物館のインスタグラム(smithsonian) - 5月22日 21時06分

What may look like a hipster’s moustache is really mammoth hair.
North American mammoths died out about 10,000 years ago. Scientists are still untangling the roles that changing climate, shifting ecosystems, and human hunting played in the mammoth’s extinction. Some mammoth species survived for a while longer in far northern Siberia, with the last population enduring on isolated Wrangel Island until about 4,000 years ago.
German scientists working for the Russian Academy of Sciences collected this hair—
and some meat!—from a mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) in 1901. The animal had been entombed in ice, which preserved muscles, blood, fat, and more. But its preservation wasn’t perfect: the body had begun to rot before it froze, so when a landslide exposed the remains, the stench greeted the collectors. Carbon dating indicates that the animal lived 40,000–20,000 years ago, during the Pleistocene.
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