Recently the remains of three Ice Age mastodons were recovered from the Peruvian Andes mountains. The researchers don’t know exactly how old the remains are just yet, but say they are from the pleistocene period.
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00:00These are the remains of what paleontologists say are three Ice Age mastodons, recovered
00:08from the Peruvian Andes Mountains.
00:11Mastodons were large, elephant-like creatures, similar to woolly mammoths, however mastodons
00:15are recognizable as having flatter heads and straighter tusks than the mammoth.
00:19The researchers don't know exactly how old the remains are just yet, but say they're
00:23from the Pleistocene period, however they add they believe they're possibly as young
00:27as just 11,000 years old.
00:29One of the recovered specimens is of particular interest to paleontologists as it's nearly
00:34complete and could be the best preserved fossil of its kind found in Peru.
00:39What's even more incredible is that all three of these large Ice Age remains were discovered
00:42in an extremely small area, measuring only around 2.5 acres.
00:46Experts believe that mastodons migrated from North America to South America in search of
00:51food as the climate changed around them.
00:53Peru has recently become a hotbed of paleontological discoveries, with researchers recently finding
00:58a bevy of other prehistoric finds.