Unique find
The female animal, which was around two meters long during its lifetime, is one of the best-preserved mammoth fossils in the world. It was around a year old when it died
Experts estimate that the animal died around 50,000 years ago.
Russian researchers have made an extremely rare find in Siberia: the team uncovered the remains of a 50,000-year-old and “exceptionally well-preserved” baby mammoth. “We were all surprised” by the condition of the fossil, said Anatoly Nikolaev from the University of Yakutsk on Monday.
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