Researchers Find Incredibly Well-Preserved Fossilized 10,000-Year-Old Mammoth

A local reindeer herder in Russia has come across a sensational discovery: the remains of a teenage woolly mammoth with soft tissue still intact.

Fragments of the skeleton, the skin, its feet, and soft tissues and possibly even the head of the mammoth were discovered washed ashore in the Russian arctic lake Pechenelava-To on the Yamal peninsula.

Climate change is heating up the Arctic at a faster rate than the rest of the world, leaving the remnants animals and artifacts of a time long-gone out in the open.

According to the Siberian Times, the woolly mammoth was found by a man from the nearby village who as walking near the lake when he stumped up the washed-up remains of a well-preserved woolly mammoth in the Arctic Lake Pechenelava-To, near the village of Seyakha,  in the northern Russian peninsula of Yamal.

As revealed by experts, the woolly mammoth is at least 10,000 years old and is one of the most complete specimens discovered in Russia’s Arctic region. Read the free story.