“Musth,” an annual ordeal which turns male elephants into oozing, aggressive pachyderms, appears to have also affected male mammoths that lived thousands of years ago, according to a new study.
Newsletter“Musth,” an annual ordeal which turns male elephants into oozing, aggressive pachyderms, appears to have also affected male mammoths that lived thousands of years ago, accordingResearchers from the University of Michigan led a team that procured a male mammoth tusk first discovered by a diamond-mining company in Siberia in 2007. From this massive tooth, they would detect ancient testosterone levels using a novel method.
Rich Auchus, an endocrinologist at the University of Michigan, who normally teaches within the Medical School, developed a new technique for this study to extract steroids from the powdered tusk. He intended to use mass spectrometry, the common method for determining molecular mass, to hunt for testosterone.
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