Wiesbaden (mammut -newspaper) - The first complete Carcass of a mammoth was found in 1799 at the delta of the Lena River from a Tungus hunters. He took only the tusks and left the rest of the animal carcass to rot. Seven years later, the botanist Mikhail Adams hid the skeleton and took it to the Zoological Museum in St. Petersburg, where it became the main attraction of the museum. Sorry, did not have the original tusks. The tusks, which are now attached to the skeleton originate from another mammoth. Read
this is a small but very fine book "mammoth find in Siberia" by Dick Mol, Christian de Marliave and Bernard Buigues. This readable book conveys with wonderful images, and simple, informative text an insight in the search, rescue and investigation of the sensational findings mammoth in Siberia. Furthermore, we learn facts about the large mammals of the last ice age and attempts by researchers, the last mystery of the disappearance of mammoths to solve.
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http://www.amazon.de/Mammutsuche-Sibirien-Dick-Mol/dp/3981046927
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