Monday, April 27, 2015

Mammoth Unearthed 2015


Mammoth Unearthed DVD     Paleontologist Trevor Valle and archaeologist Tim King travel to the Siberian tundra on a six-week expedition to search for prehistoric mammoths.  There are many local hunters looking for the tusks of the mammoths since they are worth a lot of money.  They are running out of time and they separate to explore two different regions.  They find a frozen one year-old female wooly mammoth calf named Lyuba who died 37,000 years ago.  She has been recently unearthed, she is very well preserved and they were able to obtain hair, tissue, bone marrow and blood samples for study.  It is very important that the sample is just beginning to thaw because oxygen destroys these materials quickly.
     The information is interesting and the photography really shows the area.  The only problem is there is just too much on camera talking from both the scientists.  A disagreement has to be added with the men arguing over both staying together or separating to cover more territory. 3* (This movie is OK)
90 min, Doc from National Geographic.
Note:  Amazon 4.5* out of 5* with 2 reviews.







No comments:

Post a Comment