Mammoth Tusk Treasure Hunt | National Geographic

Siberian hunters once relied on mammoths for their meat. Now, their tusks are the prize. These relics—exposed by climate change, and hunters' increasing efforts to dig them up—can fetch tens of thousands of dollars, inspiring a bustling trade.

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[zunedog]

THIS is National Geographic quality video. 

[thegreenman]

i bet these guys are paid a few hundred dollars per tusk, by the time it gets to a collector its gone up in value by tens of thousands

[aymanb]

yay, just found $100, 000 on my way home

[sagetheory]

i love this documentarys with good camera shots and quality

[maggiemoran]

I... I... I can't believe these things are just hanging out in the open, just THERE. Oh, here, here's an ancient mammal artifact, here you go. And they're just HACKING AWAY at it with shovels and very matter-of-factly just wiping it off like it's NO BIG DEAL. I would be screaming hysterically if I were to find something like this. #lifegoals #fossilgeek

[brucewyness]

How can you carve up something that beautiful

[rednecklowlife]

The one on the front of the boat was perfect! They also should be looking for Clovis spear points! The paleo people hunted these beast!

[kareno]

i'd have Several Mammoths, Rebuilt, STANDING along the Bluff. A Tusk is only the beginning of Seeing this Planet's Power.

[OficialNo]

BEAUTIFUL Fibonacci pattern at the end! <3

[CallTyrone]

Easy River New York at 63rd Street is where the American History Museum dumped mammoths, sabertooths, short fenced bear skulls in the water.

[Iloveyourmom]

There appear to be many mammoths in Siberia.

[HllHoundd]

were can I find more videos similiar to these?

[lamengheiralpha]

The only benefits of permafrost defrosting. What an irony

[seanmcguire]

Were they covered up by glacier n permafrost before no

[StephenHughess]

How incredible! That should give them enough money to renovate their mud huts!  I'm thinking some nice teak flooring or something.

[sharonholdren]

This is the only positive side effect of climate change I can imagine.

[donshilo]

And that how you found 1/4 of a mil just Walking around

[DynamicSphinx]

God is amazing. I wonder how humans and mammoths interacted with each other? Did humans hunt mammoths and eat their meat and make clothes out of their fur/skin?