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Lot 8336
Mammoth Hair
3 December 2006, 11:00 PST
Los AngelesSold for US$1,314.50 inc. premium
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Mammthus primigenius
Pleistocene, about 30,000 million years old
Indigirka Basin of Siberia, Russia
Rarely has Woolly Mammoth hair been found in the permafrost of northern Siberia. Woolly Mammoths possesed two types of a hair—a long, reddish-brown outer hair and a soft, tan inner hair. Recent studies show that the hair of Woolly Mammoths varied from blonde to dark brown. Woolly Mammoths were a very successful species; in parts of Siberia alone their population density is estimated at 60 animals per hundred square kilometers (or about ¼ of a square mile), just like the African elephant of today.
The present specimen is part of a collection originally owned by Dr. Gernady Bayabanikov, head of the History Faunas Department, Zoological Institute, USSR Academy of Science in Leningrad. Measures 10 x 10in
Pleistocene, about 30,000 million years old
Indigirka Basin of Siberia, Russia
Rarely has Woolly Mammoth hair been found in the permafrost of northern Siberia. Woolly Mammoths possesed two types of a hair—a long, reddish-brown outer hair and a soft, tan inner hair. Recent studies show that the hair of Woolly Mammoths varied from blonde to dark brown. Woolly Mammoths were a very successful species; in parts of Siberia alone their population density is estimated at 60 animals per hundred square kilometers (or about ¼ of a square mile), just like the African elephant of today.
The present specimen is part of a collection originally owned by Dr. Gernady Bayabanikov, head of the History Faunas Department, Zoological Institute, USSR Academy of Science in Leningrad. Measures 10 x 10in

