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The Expedition Team with a tusk Team members from left to right in top picture: Alexei Tikhonov, Mammalian Systematist at the Zoological Institute of Russian Academy Sciences; Ross D. E. MacPhee, Curator in the Department of Mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History; Sergey Vartanyan, Geomorphologist at the Wrangel Island State Reserve; Jeffrey Saunders, Curator of Geology at the Illinois State Museum; Clare Flemming, Graduate student and Lab & Special Collections Supervisor, Department of Mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History. Team members from left to right in bottom picture: Alex Greenwood, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History; Preston Marx, Professor of Microbiology, Tulane University (New Orleans) and Staff Investigator, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center (New York City).
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Jeff and Ross smiling Paleontologists Jeff Saunders and Ross MacPhee celebrate their good fortune in finding mammoth bones in the Naskhok River during a typical August day on Wrangel Island.
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Clare Flemming enjoys a moment's pause outside the cabin.
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Jeff and the most beautiful tusk Spiraling right tusk found by Jeff Saunders. When Jeff first spotted the specimen, only the first few inches were exposed at the river's edge. An hour later, he and Ross had unearthed this three-foot-long beauty from the permafrost.
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Ross the hunter 80 pounds of ivory on MacPhee's shoulders.
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