Remains of a wooly mammoth have been discovered by a young boy walking his dogs in the permafrost of Sopochnaya Karga, in the north of Russia.
The region, which lies 3,500km north-east of Moscow, lies on the Taymyr peninsula which extends out into the Arctic ocean. The local climate is hostile, with average high temperatures in July at just 5C, and average lows in January that drop down to -33.
By: Duncan Geere,
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/06/mammoth-discovery
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