12,000 years ago, two fighting mammoths came to wrap their tusks together, then died of starvation

Ironically, two enemies died in entwined posture, face to face during the 120th century.

12,000 years ago, in the western plains of Nebraska, there was a fierce duel, causing both rivals to suffer severe damage to death. Ironically, two enemies died in entwined posture, face to face during the 120th century. These two rival names are two adult Columbia mammoths, very long-tailed elephants and less hairy. An adult female can weigh up to 10 tons and up to 3.9 meters high.

In 1962, two land inspectors Ben Ferguson and George McMillan discovered the corpses of these two mammoths. 2 skeletons buried underground just north of Crawford, a city of Nebraskan.

The fossil hunting team from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln was quickly dispatched to collect two skeletons. For a month, the fossil hunting team carefully cleaned the huge skeletons of Benny and George. And during the excavation, they discovered an amazing thing: Two dead mammoths with their tusks intertwined.

Daniel Fisher, a University of Michigan paleontologist specializing in mammoths and mastodons, analyzed their rebellion battles in the early 2000s. By studying ivory samples from Both giant elephants in Nebraska, Fisher determined that they were about 40 when they died.

Male mammoths in Africa are characterized by hormonal growth at adulthood. Zoologists call this phenomenon 'musth'. Under the influence of musth phenomenon, the male elephant body will increase testosterone by 10 times compared to normal. So they will fight with each other even if it's a small provocation, especially when standing in front of the female elephant.

Perhaps these two male mammoth mammoths also fought against each other while experiencing the musth phenomenon. The battle was so intense that the child's ivory stabbed into the other eye of the other.

Both mammoths have a short ivory side and a longer ivory side. They banged their heads to the right together so that the two tusks tightened and could not be removed. So two elephants had to stay in that position until they died of starvation.

After 43 years of hosting in Lincoln, Nebraska, 2 skeletons were returned to Crawford City in 2005. Today, this mammoth couple is exhibited at the Natural History Museum Trailside, becoming a pride. of the city with nearly 10,000 people from all over the world visit every year.