YEVGENY Salinde, an 11-year-old Russian boy, has found a 30,000-year old perfectly preserved mammoth carcass near his home in Russia’s far north. Experts believe this is the second most well preserved mammoth specimen ever discovered. A similar find like this hasn’t been encountered in a century.
Paleontologists did not only find a skeleton, like initially expected, but a complete carcass – skin, meat, fat hump, organs and a tusk. Scientists estimate the mammoth was 15 to 16 years old when it succumbed in the summer because it lacked an undercoat and had a large.
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, skull 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.
Zhenya discovered the body 3 kilometres from Sopkarga polar meteorological station, where he lives with his family.
His parents informed scientific experts about the discovery after which the mammoth was taken to Dudinka in a helicopter and put in an ice chamber there. After the remains are studied, Zhenya the mammoth will move to Taymyr natural history museum as a showpiece.
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