Mammoth Tusks: Big Profits, Lost History

Paleontologists are struggling to salvage precious prehistoric bones discarded by mammoth-ivory hunters in Russia's remote Yakutia region. When hunters extract valuable tusks from the skeletons of the ancient buried animals, they also destroy evidence of past life on Earth. Scientists can't stop this illegal work, but they bargain and scavenge to preserve natural history.

[noviddaily]

Someone needs to end the Chinese ‘medicine’ trade before it’s too late

[MotoWorld]

yes, better to leave it in the dirt than for poor people to dig it up and makes some money off it! I like how the "Professor" bemoans the situation while loading his boat with fossils!

[AustrySpring]

I wouldn't be interested in selling those tusks I would keep them on my room

[bradleejones]

No matter how far they go into the permafrost, there's always something two inches beyond. So what's the big deal? Let them make their money. If the archaeologist are so worried about losing data, work side by side with the hunters.

[scott-qksm]

One day all that's left of environment destroying humans will be in that frozen mud also.

[samuelreed]

They're like, forget panning for gold!

well fed professor with good government salary will never understand hungry but energetic peasant or laborer with enterprising skills

[andrewbartell]

Bring the mammoth back .... Im so hungry!!! It can be the next McRib!!!

[apemancommeth]

That’s so cool and so sad to just abandon them! I’d buy a skull

[cybershit]

😢 So unfortunate such precious places are being destroyed

[CatholicCatholic-in]

Arthur “Jack” Schubarth was in the prison for six months for cloned rams or sheeps. I think he was freed. I wonder if he can clone Ice age mammals, dinosaurs, and ancient forests.

[joewalling]

Someone wants more regulation only because someone is finding something valuable and they want in on the cut. Or to suppress history changing finds that were not for people struggling to feed themselves and family these would never have been found.. im leaning on the latter option.. they want to control the narrative of what they are finding could potentially change..

[dcservices]

I hope the people there continue to get the tusk and make a living off of dead beast

[Cola]

That Rhino Horn will produce another 20 thousand Chinese babies

[jeronimomod]

Environmental cost my ass. The planet itself is a deadly and destructive place. Forever changing forever rebuilding and forever erasing yesterday's tomorrow

[ericneilson]

It is a good thing to find them!! Leave these people alone !! The last thing this world needs is more regulations and over sight by big government!! Some so called scientist is pissed because he didn't get his greedy hand's on them.

[Trueblue]

More than likely the authorities are getting paid to look the other way…. It wrong but who could blame them …

[jimmy]

If there was a environmental friendly way of doing this id buy a old skull or horn for sure!

[mnlvill]

Great doesn’t kill live animals. Big companies wish they could extract those bones!

[t.c.]

Ok... so what makes these pieces "SO PRECIOUS"?... We know they existed, we have thousands of bones already hidden in storage warehouses and museums... do we need more? And what is the difference between grave robbers and "archeologists" plundering graves or boneyards? I suggest there is NOTHING left for anyone to prove other than just finding more artifacts that are pretty and to show tourists in museums... it's ALL ABOUT WHO GETS THE MONEY...