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Woolly Mammoth Tusk
3 December 2006, 11:00 PST
Los AngelesSold for US$21,510 inc. premium
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Mammthus primigenius
Pleistocene, approximately 35,000 million years old
Taymyr Peninsula, Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Northern Russia
Exceptional preservation and a highly desirable blue-green patina distinguish a polished Woolly Mammoth tusk. Using their long, curved tusks to sift the snow to forage for vegetation, and ever alert for the crunching snow of a predator or man, Woolly Mammoths walked through the frozen wastelands of the last Ice Age. Approximately the size of an Asian elephant, their hairy body and storage of fat provided warmth. Unlike modern elephants, the Woolly Mammoth had small ears (elephants use their ears to cool themselves and, as the Mammoth lived in a cold environment, large ears were unnecessary.) The males may have used their tusks in intra-species combat or competition for females.
Weighs 34 kilograms Measures 85in around curve of tusk
Pleistocene, approximately 35,000 million years old
Taymyr Peninsula, Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Northern Russia
Exceptional preservation and a highly desirable blue-green patina distinguish a polished Woolly Mammoth tusk. Using their long, curved tusks to sift the snow to forage for vegetation, and ever alert for the crunching snow of a predator or man, Woolly Mammoths walked through the frozen wastelands of the last Ice Age. Approximately the size of an Asian elephant, their hairy body and storage of fat provided warmth. Unlike modern elephants, the Woolly Mammoth had small ears (elephants use their ears to cool themselves and, as the Mammoth lived in a cold environment, large ears were unnecessary.) The males may have used their tusks in intra-species combat or competition for females.
Weighs 34 kilograms Measures 85in around curve of tusk