{"product_id":"mammoth-bone-shards-fossil-north-sea","title":"Mammoth Bone Shards - Fossil Specimen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLocality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e: Southern North Sea (Doggerland), trawled by Dutch fishing boats, Netherlands\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEra\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e:\u003cspan\u003e Late Pleistocene\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeological Age\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e: about 60,000 to 15,000 years ago (Late Pleistocene)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription\u003c\/strong\u003e: These mammoth bone fragments were brought up from the floor of the southern North Sea by Dutch fishing boats. During the last ice age, sea level was so much lower that this area was dry land, part of a plain now called Doggerland that joined Britain to mainland Europe. Woolly mammoths, woolly rhinos, reindeer and other animals of the cold \"mammoth steppe\" roamed it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAs the ice melted, the sea rose and drowned Doggerland, and its bones were left on the sea floor. Since the 1960s, Dutch beam trawlers have hauled up many thousands of fossil bones in their nets, mostly around the Brown Bank, and landed them at ports such as IJmuiden. Radiocarbon dates place most of this material between about 60,000 and 15,000 years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe Naturalis museum in Leiden now holds about 9,000 mammoth specimens, most of them from the North Sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWoolly mammoths were extinct relatives of today's elephants. They grazed mainly on grasses and other plants, and their long, curved tusks could reach about 4 m (13 ft).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eEach fragment shows part of the dense outer wall of the bone and the porous, honeycomb-like inner bone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSmall\u003cbr\u003eApproximate Size of 1 piece\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e: 6.5cm x 2.5cm x 1.5cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eApproximate Weight of 1 piece\u003c\/strong\u003e: 25g\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eApproximate Size of 1 piece\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e: 7cm x 3cm x 2.5cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eApproximate Weight of 1 piece: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e55g\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eLarge\u003cbr\u003eApproximate Size of 1 piece\u003c\/b\u003e:  7.5cm x 5.5cm x 4cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eApproximate Weight of 1 piece\u003c\/strong\u003e: 115g\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eQuantity\u003c\/strong\u003e: 1pc\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe do our best to buy quality products- although not every rock is the same. 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