Yakut paleontologists spoke about the sensational find made in the far north of the republic. Near the village of Yukagir, Ust-Yansky ulus, in a grotto formed as a result of thawing permafrost, scientists accidentally discovered the carcass of a mammoth
According to the acting. Head of the Mammoth Museum of the North-Eastern Federal University named after M. K. Amosova Semyon Grigoriev, a unique find could be lost forever. The crumbling breed could bury her at any moment. The baby monkey turned out to be a young female. It was named after the nearby village of Yukagir - Yukkoy. She has almost completely preserved her hair, trunk, internal organs. The animal died at the age of about three years. Earlier, smaller mammoths were found in Yakutia. Or parts of adult animals. Not far from the place where Yucca was found, a mammoth head was already found, which in 2005 became the symbol of the world exhibition "EXPO" in Japan.
Scientists call a real sensation that almost all of the bones of Yucca's body were removed. The carcass was carefully dissected. Notches are marked on the back. If ancient hunters did this, then it is not clear why they did not eat the meat, but only pulled out the bones and put them next to the body of the killed animal. Perhaps paleontologists have come across clear evidence of some kind of prehistoric rite.
According to Gennady Boeskorov, a leading researcher at the Institute of Geology, Diamond and Precious Metals of the Northern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the international team of scientists will begin to unravel the secrets of Yucca in February next year. In the meantime, the baby mammoth is kept under the strictest supervision in a special refrigerator.
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