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Short title	L0057714 Left femur of extinct elephant, Alaska, Ice Age
Author	Wellcome Library, London
Headline	L0057714 Left femur of extinct elephant, Alaska, Ice Age
Copyright holder	Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Image title	L0057714 Left femur of extinct elephant, Alaska, Ice Age Credit: Science Museum, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Disease has a very long history on Earth. From an extinct species of elephant – possibly a mammoth – this long leg bone measuring just under a metre shows two bone cysts. The bone dates from the Pleistocene Ice Age (11,500 to 1.8 million years ago). The bone was originally in the collection of Roy Moodie (1880-1934), an American paleopathologist who studied prehistoric disease. maker: Unknown maker Place made: Alaska, United States made: 1.8 million years ago – 11, 500 years ago Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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