博物館中廳的龐然大物是猛犸象骨架化石。猛犸象即長毛象,存在于冰河時期,分布于包括中國東北部在內的北半球寒帶地區(qū)。猛犸象于公元前1670 年左右滅絕,這是冰川時代結束的標志。一頭成熟的猛犸象,身長約5—7 米,體重可達12 噸。此具猛犸象骨架化石于2012 年出土于黑龍江省綏化市青岡縣,是一具較為完整的猛犸象骨架化石。研究發(fā)現,猛犸象骨化石經多次煅燒后敲碎煎水服用,具有鎮(zhèn)靜安神、止血澀腸的功效。
The enormous exhibit in the museum is a fossilized skeleton of a mammoth, an ancient creatureknown as the woolly mammoth that lived during the Ice Age and in the cold zone of northern hemisphere,including northeastern China. The extinction of mammoth around 1670 BC marks the end of the Ice Age.A mature mammoth was about 5 to 7 meters in length and weighed up to 12 tons. this relatively completemammoth fossil was discovered in Qinggang County, Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province in 2012. Researchhas found that ater multiple calcinations, the fossilized bones of the mammoth can be crushed, boiled inwater, and consumed, providing calming and soothing effects as well as stopping bleeding and relievingintestinal discomfort.