Episode 38: Mammoth (2006)

Mammoth (2006) is a made-for-TV Sci-Fi Channel original in which a frozen mammoth becomes possessed by an extraterrestrial being, and the Men in Black enlist the help of a local paleontologist to save the town from total annihilation. This movie asks many important questions, like: How do mammoths behave in the wild? Do they attack? And were they really wiped out by a “pathogon”? The answers to these questions and more on this episode of Screens of the Stone Age!

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In this episode:

• Did a “pathogon” kill the mammoths? Ross MacPhee thinks so

• Deinotherium – the “terrible beast”

• Mammoth was filmed at the Grigore Antipa Natural History Museum, Bucharest

• Mammoth behaviour

• Museum galleries only show a small fraction of their collections

• Most museum fossils on display are casts

• What is the difference between x-rays and CT scans?

• CT scanners have apertures less than 1 meter – not big enough for a mammoth

• How many species of mammoths were there? (and other mammoth facts)