30,000-year-old nearly intact carcass of woolly mammoth
MOSCOW: A neighbourhood adventure has led a 11-year-old Russian boy to
discover remains of a 30,000-year-old nearly intact woolly mammoth
complete with skin, hair, bones and even reproductive organs. Yevgeny
Salinder found the remains of the mammoth on Sopochnaya Karga cape in
Russia's northernmost peninsula of Taymyr, the Moscow News reported.
The body which has been named 'Zhenya' after the boy's nickname is that
of a male mammoth which died at the age of 15-16, approximately 30,000
years ago. The total weight of the remains is more than 500 kg, and that
includes the right half of the body with soft tissue, skin and hair,
scull with one ear, a tusk, various bones and even reproductive organs,
the Dolgano-Nentsky administration website announced. It is believed to
be the second best preserved mammoth discovery and the best mammoth find
since 1901, when another mammoth was discovered near Beryozovka River
in Yakutia, the paper reported.
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