Baby Mammoth Found Intact In Siberia
Posted by Slobokan @ 22:52 · 150 words · print
It amazes me, that 10,000 years later we are still finding things like this.
A baby mammoth unearthed in the permafrost of north-west Siberia could be the best preserved specimen of its type, scientists have said.
The frozen carcass is to be sent to Japan for detailed study.
The six-month-old female calf was discovered on the Yamal peninsula of Russia and is thought to have died 10,000 years ago.
The animal's trunk and eyes are still intact and some of its fur remains on the body.
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"The mammoth has no defects except that its tail was bit off," said Alexei Tikhonov, deputy director of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a member of the delegation.
"In terms of its state of preservation, this is the world's most valuable discovery," he said.
It just makes you wonder how much we don't know about our planet.
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