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A steppe bison on display at the University of Alaska Museum of the North in Fairbanks.

The steppe bison is one of several extinct large mammals that roamed interior Alaska during the Wisconsinan glacial period, 100,000 to 10,000 years ago. This specimen died about 36,000 years ago and was found during the summer of 1979. It has a bluish color over the entire carcass, caused by the phosphorus in the animal tissue reacting with the iron in the soil to produce a mineral coating of vivianite - which became a brilliant blue when it was exposed to air. Hence the name Blue Babe.
Date Taken on 2 August 2014, 11:00
Source Steppe bison
Author Bernt Rostad from Oslo, Norway
Camera location64° 51′ 30.71″ N, 147° 50′ 32.56″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Bernt Rostad at https://www.flickr.com/photos/67975030@N00/15120336688. It was reviewed on 1 November 2014 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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Desiccated steppe bison (Bison priscus)

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2 August 2014

64°51'30.712"N, 147°50'32.561"W

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