Two CT-scanned Siberian mammoth calves yield trove of insights
Wednesday, July 9, 2014 - 07:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(Phys.org) —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.