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Originally posted by Mr Bojangles View PostIs something like this fossilized or still original product?
Great find Sergeir.I keep six honest serving-men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.
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.I may have posted this before, but this is one of my specimens of mammoth hair. It's NOT fossilised in a mineral replacement sense... it's the actual hair, recovered from the Lena River region of Siberia:
Mammoths moulted their winter coats in spring and tufts of it have ended up preserved in the permafrost. During spring thaws, it comes down the streams into the river and gets snagged on twigs and other vegetation. The slightly reddish hue is an artefact of iron-staining and oxidation but led to a belief that mammoths were "ginger". Actually, the winter coat was dark brown, approaching black (at least for Mammuthus primigenius, which is what my specimen is from). It's around 22,000 years old. This clump has a mixture of the thick 'guard' hairs and the finer inner coat hairs.
I keep six honest serving-men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.
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Originally posted by painshill View Post.I may have posted this before, but this is one of my specimens of mammoth hair. It's NOT fossilised in a mineral replacement sense... it's the actual hair, recovered from the Lena River region of Siberia:
Mammoths moulted their winter coats in spring and tufts of it have ended up preserved in the permafrost. During spring thaws, it comes down the streams into the river and gets snagged on twigs and other vegetation. The slightly reddish hue is an artefact of iron-staining and oxidation but led to a belief that mammoths were "ginger". Actually, the winter coat was dark brown, approaching black (at least for Mammuthus primigenius, which is what my specimen is from). It's around 22,000 years old. This clump has a mixture of the thick 'guard' hairs and the finer inner coat hairs.
Jess BoeIt is a "Rock" when it's on the ground.
It is a "Specimen" when picked up and taken home.
Jessy B.
Circa:1982
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Originally posted by Bone2stone View Post
Yes you have posted it, did you post on that fossil site forum too? Or am I just cornfuzed.
Jess Boe
Don't keep track of what I've posted where unless it's recent.I keep six honest serving-men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.
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