What do archaeologists do when they discover a 36,000-year-old wild cow mummy?

Can you believe it when a series of strange events took place with the bison once inhabiting the North American steppe 36,000 years ago!

The incident discovered by accident: want to find gold again . mummy

One of the most interesting events in North America in the late 1890s was the Klondike Gold Rush. It is estimated that more than 100,000 people fought for Alaska and northwest Canada to find gold. Some people became wealthy, most of them left and left.

On the way to the Klondike area look for gold.

By 1976, the gold fever had cooled down completely. However, the Rumans found another, much bigger and shocking thing! It is the mummy of a male bison that is "tempered" naturally. The location is located near the city of Fairbanks, Alaska.

They named it Blue Babe , derived from the American myth of the "Babe the Blue Ox" cow - a pet of a giant woodcutter.

Under the ice is a layer of mud covering the corpses of the Blue Babe.

The Rumans are extremely shocked and decided to contact Dale Guthrie immediately - an archeology professor from Alaska University. It took 3 years for Professor Dale's team to break the ice and successfully excavate the huge bison.

Until then, they realized they were witnessing one of the most perfect specimens of the bison ever found.

Through radiocarbon dating, the researchers determined this bison died . 36,000 years ago!

There are many wounds on the neck and back, most likely the powerful bite of the American lion. This is an extinct lion branch in the ice age and also the ancestor of today's African lion.

Terrible bites, probably from lions on the head of Blue Babe.

The clash took place in the winter and the bison seemed to escape, but it died freezing because of the cold bone. The low temperature also makes the wound not "eat" all over the body.

Then spent tens of thousands of years, thick layers of snow covered the mummy that made it . a long sleep, until it was excavated in 1979.

It is known that the individual was found in the steppe (Bison priscus). It lived in the last ice age (110,000 - 10,000 years ago) in Europe, Central Asia and North America. The bison is the largest in size on land with mammoths, lions, tigers .

Bison bison is now the rightmost offspring, smaller than the Blue Babe specimen (Bison pricus, middle).

Extinct bison pricus 8,000 years ago. However, there are still some of its "relatives" to date, including American bison (Bison bison). This cow is smaller but still high . 2.8m and weighs more than 600kg on average.

And what did they do with the mummy?

Mummies were excavated in July, mid-summer. As soon as it comes out of the ice, it shows signs of decomposition. The team is very worried that specimens cannot be used for bison research later on. Therefore, they decided to take meat, blood, and marrow of the mummy separately; to preserve the rest of the Alaska Museum permanently.

Dale Guthrie handles the Blue Babe specimen, preventing it from decomposing.

Fortunately, the research team was successful thanks to the help of animal cracking expert Eirik Granqvist from Helsinki University, Finland. By mid-1894, the mummified bison mummy was taken to display.

And you know what? Previously, the team still retained some "frozen" beef beef .

Unaware of curiosity or scientific intentions (researchers also often eat specimens to detect things that are unrecognizable in the normal way), Dale's group decided to tunnel a small piece of meat in the cow's neck. 36,000 year old bison forest !!!

After that? They all live well to tell us what the meat tastes like."It was tough but still edible and clear of beef. None of us vomited or had any problems later," said Dale Guthrie.

To date, the Blue Babe bison specimen is still majestic at the Museum of the North of the University of Alaska.