In October 2015, a farmer in Michigan, USA, accidentally found a huge bone in his farmland. He was so shocked that he found a friend to drive a giant excavator to dig. As a result, a nearly complete skeleton of a giant beast was dug up!
The farmer soon realized that the animal was probably beyond his knowledge and invited professors from the University of Michigan to participate in the survey. Soon, the professor confirmed the owner of the skeleton, a mammoth that lived 11,000-15,000 years ago!
Based on the distribution of bones at the site, scientists speculated that it was an adult bull elephant about 3 meters tall, weighed about 7 tons, and was 40-50 years old. The cause of its death is even more shocking – the hapless mammoth showed signs of being slaughtered by humans, and part of its body was even concentrated for winter food reserves!
One might be wondering, such a huge animal, could humans conquer them 10,000 years ago?
In fact, the mammoths that intersect with primitive humans are not as big as imagined.
The largest known prairie mammoth is 4.5 meters tall at shoulders and weighs more than a dozen tons, and the tusks alone are 4.9 meters long. However, this giant beast became extinct as early as 370,000 years ago, when there was no so-called "Homo sapiens".
The mammoths that were hunted by primitive people mainly included the Colombian mammoth in North America and the true mammoth in Eurasia. However, except for their tusks, which are more than 4 meters long, they do not weigh more than 10 tons. Compared with modern African elephants, except for the longer tusks, they are similar or even smaller.
Moreover, mammoths are probably hunted by humans because of a lack of vigilance. They may have simply thought of primitive humans as a weak hairless orangutan. It's like a moa bird extinct by the Maori. Until they are completely surrounded, they are completely unaware of the danger, and they do not know how to actively escape. #Wonderful Biosphere##Fun Nature##野生动物 #
