1/8/2023 0 Comments One wild moment torrent“We were just flying along and I look down and see it and go ‘that’s a tusk,’” said Randy Prickett, a senior R.O.V. However, that all changed in 2019 when scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute stumbled upon one of her tusks while using remotely operated vehicles to search for new deep-sea species off the coast of Monterey, Calif. There she sat for millenniums, her existence known to no one. Carried by currents, her remains drifted more than 150 miles from shore before settling 10,000 feet beneath the water’s surface on the side of a seamount. Although she died on land, her massive body found its way into the Pacific Ocean. A young female mammoth was wandering long ago near what would become the Central Coast of California, when her life came to an untimely end.
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