Graduate Student Emil Karpinski Holds a Tibial Cross Section from a Siberian Woolly Mammoth (IMAGE)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Graduate Student Emil Karpinski Holds a Tibial Cross Section from a Siberian Woolly Mammoth

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Graduate student Emil Karpinski holds a tibial cross section from a Siberian Woolly Mammoth. This permafrost preserved sample still contains fat entombed marrow.

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Image courtesy of JD Howell (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario).

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