Mammoth carcass found in Siberia Posted by Xeno on October 5,
2012 A well-preserved mammoth carcass has been found by an
11-year-old boy in the permafrost of northern Siberia.The
remains were discovered at the end of August in Sopochnaya
Karga, 3,500km 2,200 miles northeast of Moscow.A team of experts
from St Petersburg then spent five days in September extracting
the body from frozen mud.The mammoth is estimated to have been
around 16 years old when it died; it stood 2m tall and weighed
500kg.It has been named Zhenya, after Zhenya Salinder, the
11-year-old who found the carcass while walking his dogs in the
area.Alexei Tikhonov, from the St Petersburg Zoology Institute,
who led the team excavating the mammoth, said this specimen
could either have been killed by Ice Age humans, or by a rival
mammoth.He added that it was well preserved for an adult
specimen.His colleague Sergei Gorbunov, from the International
Mammoth Committee, which works to recover and safeguard such
remains, said: “We had to use both tradi