A female woolly mammoth, which was found frozen in Russia in May, has gone on display in an exhibition hall in Tokyo. Parts of the carcass are especially well preserved because they remained entirely frozen for thousands of years. This means that the shape of the mammoth is intact, including its hair. The snout of the 39,000-year-old mammoth(below). When the mammoth was discovered preserved muscle tissue was also found from the creature, aged between 50 and 60 when she died, according to the Russian team who made the discovery on islands off the northern coast of Siberia.
Friday, July 12, 2013
A female woolly mammoth, which was found frozen in Russia in May, has gone on display in an exhibition hall in Tokyo. Parts of the carcass are especially well preserved because they remained entirely frozen for thousands of years. This means that the shape of the mammoth is intact, including its hair. The snout of the 39,000-year-old mammoth(below). When the mammoth was discovered preserved muscle tissue was also found from the creature, aged between 50 and 60 when she died, according to the Russian team who made the discovery on islands off the northern coast of Siberia.
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