Prehistoric elephant skeleton model to be built in Perm Museum

The "Collect an Elephant" campaign has started in the Perm Museum of Local Lore. Within its framework, it is necessary to raise 3 million rubles for the construction of a scientific model of the skeleton of a trogontherium elephant. The model will be based on the original bones of a prehistoric animal that scientists found in the Okhansky district.

According to the director of the museum, Tatiana Vostrikova, the principle of assembling the elephant by scientific reconstruction was chosen so that the original bones could still be studied. Thus, specialists will make a 3D copy of the elephant, then print it out.

"Collect the Elephant" is an educational program that should help those who are interested in earth sciences, history and local lore, Vostrikova said at the presentation of the magazine, published following a multi—year archaeological expedition.

IA " <url>" clarifies that the remains of a trogontherium elephant were discovered in the Okhansky district of the Perm Territory. Experts are studying them to create a 1-scale skeleton model.:1. In the future, the model will be installed in the new Permian Paleontological Museum.

A website has been dedicated to the Trogonterium elephant, which tells about the era in which he lived and about the expedition itself near Okhansk.

Earlier it was reported that a US resident from Mississippi found a whole mammoth tusk in a local stream. On August 3, Eddie Templeton from Madison saw in the mud of a local stream a part of a two-meter-long tusk of a Columbian mammoth that lived in these places tens of thousands of years ago, during the last ice Age.