Specialists show plus some of the fossils discovered in the tank Ziegler
The director of the Museum of Nature and Science Denver, Kirk Johnson, said he found at the foot of a hill in the Rocky Mountains northwest of Aspen.
Hundreds of animals of the Ice Age were discovered last October by archaeologists of Colorado at the foot of a hill in the Rocky Mountains northwest of Aspen.
The director of the Museum of Nature and Science Denver, Kirk Johnson, called for a press conference the discovery as "one of which is done only once in life" and listed all the specimens found.
"This not only completes our understanding of life in the Rocky Mountains during the Ice Age, but also transformed forever into something symbolic for the children of Colorado," said Johnson. Technical
digging to build a dam near the community of Snowmass Village, northwest of Aspen, located on 14th October a mastodon tusk, which caused them to perform other excavations unearthed hundreds of copies.
mastodons were found 10 Americans, four mammoth, two deer of the ice age, four bison and tiger salamander, among others that include iridescent insects such as beetles and snails and crustaceans.
amounts were also identified well-preserved wood, seeds, pine cones and leaves of silver fir, sub-alpine sedges, seeds and other plants.
The preservation of the fossils found in the reservoir was described by archaeologists as exceptional.
At least one of the 15 tusks recovered from the site is still blank after tens of thousands of years, said through a press release Thursday.
Scientists think it's a good chance of recovering well-preserved ancient DNA of some fossils.
Daniel Fisher, a specialist in mastodons at the University of Michigan and a consultant to the excavation Snowmass, said that there are many findings of the ice age to a height which is the site where specimens were found eight thousand 874 meters .
"It has been suggested that height environments may have hosted different communities, or have had a different story of change, but because the fossils are very rare, representing no one has known for sure," said Fisher.
"Now is our chance to see how they are," he said.
The age of the site is also of particular interest to scientists, the museum said.
initial radiocarbon data indicate that the remains on the site have more than 43 thousand 500 years, and geologists estimate that the site could be as old as about 130 thousand years.
Source: milenio.com / Photo: AP.
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