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Giant mammoth carcass in Siberian frost

• Yevgeny Salinder, an 11-year old Russian

boy, is the one who discovered the

massive remains of the mammoth in

August.

• The mammoth, estimated to be at its 16

year when it died measured 2 meters and

weighed 1,000 pounds, was excavated

from the Siberian permafrost last month.

• ”It is the mammoth of the century,” said

Professor Alexei Tikhonov of the

Zoological Museum in St Petersburg.

According to a Russian scientist, the well-preserved

mammoth could be attacked by another mammoth or an

Ice Age man. It was best preserved remains of a mature

mammoth but its DNA was already damaged and would be

difficult to use for cloning.

• The International Mammoth Committee

working to recover and protect ancient

remains: “We had to use both traditional

instruments such as axes, picks, shovels as

well as such devices as this „steamer‟

which allowed us to thaw a thin layer of

permafrost. Then we cleaned it off, and

then we melted more of it. It took us a

week to complete this task.”

• A group of researchers from different

countries have visited the site in

September and they were surprised to see

that the remains were not only made up of

bones but in fact, complete with hair, one

tusk and soft tissues.

“We can see that this

animal was very well

adapted to the northern

environment, accumula

ting massive amounts

of fat. This animal

likely died during the

summer period as we

can‟t see much of its

undercoat, but it had

already accumulated a

sufficient amount of

fat,” said Aleksey

Tikhonov from the

Russian Academy of

Sciences .

• Principal analysis on the creature‟s remains has

disproved that the big humps on mammoths

depicted in cave paintings in European countries

were not actually extension of their bone

structure but great reserves of fat that helped

them manipulate their body temperature during

long winter seasons.

• The mammoth, named as Zhenya after the 11-

year old boy, is set to be the main exhibit in the

Taimyr Regional Museum and will be

transferred to the Russian Academy of Sciences.