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...
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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.
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