![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090507231614im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Baby Mammoth Studies Validate Researcher's Techniques
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April 20, 2009
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Extensive studies of a 40,000-year-old baby mammoth carcass, discovered in Siberia two years ago, validate techniques developed by University of Michigan paleontologist Daniel Fisher for extracting information about prehistoric pachyderms' lives from their teeth and tusks.
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