Includes a bonus collectible/playing card. primigenius) although of much larger size. It was the species that preceded the famous woolly mammoth (M. “I gave it an honest shot.The Steppe mammoth, Mammuthus trogontherii, was the first mammoth to develop a dense coat because it lived in cold climatic conditions and had a very short tail. “If I find nothing, then I find nothing,” Gann said. He and his crew hadn’t found anything and had switched to a location off southern Brooklyn, perhaps a more likely site for cargo to be dumped. Gann, who appeared in Discovery’s Sewer Divers, added: “I’ve hunted for weird artifacts my entire life, so this one, it just kind of fits into my repertoire.” Visibility in the East River is extremely poor, he said. Gann said he had seen about two dozen other sets of fossil hunters out searching for mammoth remains. The highway opened in 1942, raising questions about how someone would have dumped a huge trove of bones without disrupting traffic. Mammoth remains discovered in Alaska did wind up at the American Museum of Natural History, including some still on display.īut the section of the Manhattan shoreline where Reeves claimed the bones were dumped underwent major changes in the 1930s and 1940s, as the East River Drive, later named for Franklin D Roosevelt, was constructed on fill and pilings. Sattler said Osborne spent time around the operation as a young man and probably heard the story about surplus bones being dumped in the New York river. It was a starting point for something, maybe a book, based on Osborne’s knowledge of a period in Alaska when mammoth remains were discovered. But it wasn’t intended for an academic journal. The document cited by Reeves was real, he said, and written in the mid-1990s. Sattler said the story about the dumped bones came from Osborne, who died in 2005. Those pages identify as the authors Richard Osborne, an anthropologist Robert Evander, who worked in the museum paleontology department and Robert Sattler, an archeologist with a consortium of Alaska Native tribes. Reached by phone, Reeves told a reporter to read the draft he posted on social media. The American Museum of Natural History said: “We do not have any record of the disposal of these fossils in the East River, nor have we been able to find any record of this report in the museum’s archives or other scientific sources.” “We’ll see if anybody out there’s got a sense of adventure,” he said, adding: “Let me tell you something about mammoth bones, mammoth tusks – they’re extremely valuable.” “I’m going to start a bone rush,” Reeves told Rogan, before reading from the draft and giving out a location: FDR Drive, at around 65th Street. Reeves cited a draft of a report by three men, including one who worked at the museum, that included a reference to some fossils and bones deemed unsuitable for the museum being dumped in the river. Some of that material was brought to New York, to be given to the American Museum of Natural History. It all started when John Reeves, an Alaskan gold miner with a passion for fossils, appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience on 30 December to talk about his land, where he has uncovered bones and tusks and where, in the early 20th century, digging for gold unearthed prehistoric mammal remains. And people buy those tickets every day,” said Don Gann, 35, of North Arlington, New Jersey, a commercial diver who has been out on the water since early last week, with his brother and two workers. “I think the chances are just as good as the lottery.
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