Pleistocene Park
During the last ice age northeastern Siberia remained a grassy refuge for scores of animals, including bison and woolly mammoths. Then, about 10,000 years ago, this vast ecosystem disappeared as the Ice Age ended.
Now, though, the Ice Age landscape is on its way back, with a little help from the Russian scientists who have established "Pleistocene Park."
The scientists hope to uncover what killed off the woolly mammoth and other Ice Age animals. To do so, they're restoring the prehistoric ecosystem once found in what is now the remote Sakha region of eastern Russia..........
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-- Stefan Lovgrenfor, National Geographic News, May 17, 2005
Now, though, the Ice Age landscape is on its way back, with a little help from the Russian scientists who have established "Pleistocene Park."
The scientists hope to uncover what killed off the woolly mammoth and other Ice Age animals. To do so, they're restoring the prehistoric ecosystem once found in what is now the remote Sakha region of eastern Russia..........
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-- Stefan Lovgrenfor, National Geographic News, May 17, 2005
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