Short lives, violent deaths: Two CT-scanned Siberian mammoth calves yield trove of insights
Sunday, July 13, 2014 - 21:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
CT scans of two newborn woolly mammoths recovered from the Siberian Arctic are revealing previously inaccessible details about the early development of prehistoric pachyderms. In addition, the X-ray images show that both creatures died from suffocation after inhaling mud.