Lot 1495
Wooly Mammoth Hair and Ivory. This large specimen of 30,000 year old Wooly Mammoth hair comes from the only Mammoth specimen available from about a dozen frozen Mammoth carcasses that have been found in the frozen permafrost of the Indi-girka Basin of Siberia. Hair does not fossilize and therefore is extraordinarily rare in extinct animals and definitely contains much original DNA. This specimen contains much more hair than usually offered and has examples of the long reddish-brown hair that covered the body of the Mammoth as well as a clump of the soft tan colored inner hair. Also included in the 8 x 6 inch Riker mount is a 6 x 1.5 inch section of fossilized Mammoth Ivory that is dark brown on the outside and ivory colored on the inside. This rare specimen of Mammuthis primigenius hair was part of the collection of Dr. Gennady Baryshnikov of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad, Russia.
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Estimated Value $500 - 800.
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