Woolly Mammoth Skeleton Found In Perfect Condition Near Paris

[Raistlin]

A perfectly preserved skeleton of a woolly mammoth that roamed the earth more than 20,000 years ago has been found near Paris.

Scientists have found a rare near complete skeleton of a mammoth in France

The accidental discovery was made by archaeologists exploring an ancient Roman site 30 miles east of the French capital in Changis-Sur-Marne.

Researchers say it is the only the third long-haired mammoth to be discovered in France in the last 150 years, with such finds more common in northern Siberia.

Head of the excavation, Greg Bayle, said it was extremely rare to find such a well-preserved carcass of the long-extinct animal.

Archeologists work at the site along the Changis-sur-Marne riverbank

'Some archaeologists have spent have spent their lives dreaming of such a discovery with no luck,' he said.

He added that the mammoth, believed to have died as a relatively young adult, would have existed when the surrounding land was a vast grassy plain, with ice blocks flowing across the nearby River Marne.

The dig team also found two flint blades next to the giant 9ft creature, suggesting she may have been hunted and killed for food by Neanderthals.

'The greatest prize are the flints nearby,' said Stephane Pean, another scientist involved.

'They show the presence of man on the side, and will help us built up a better understanding of the Neanderthals, who were contemporaries of the mammoth.'

Scientist are attempting to discover how it died and are exploring a theory that it may have drowned in the nearby river.

Woolly mammoths became completely extinct approximately 10,000 years ago due to the combined effects of being hunted by humans and climate change.

So even 10,000.00 years ago the french women still didn't shave

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It could be Kingo and his faciel hair they have found

[Raistlin]

It could be Kingo and his faciel hair they have found

He's old enough... :)

[Bizarra]

Sir Henry Howorth, a 19th century archaeologist, assembled a massive amount of material concerning the mammoth graveyards. Incidentally, Howorth was rather hostile toward Christianity. Anyway, he attributed the quick-freeze to a “change of climate” that “must have been sudden, and must also have been continental” (p. 94).

The freeze occurred so rapidly that the bodies of these huge beasts did not have time to decompose. There have been numerous cases where the flesh of mammoths was so well-preserved that the meat was still edible by bears and wolves.

In 1901 a mammoth carcass was found so well-preserved that there were food fragments, as yet unswallowed, in its mouth. Moreover, there was more than twenty pounds of vegetation still in the stomach cavity – some ofwhich was not yet decayed. The animal had died and been frozen in virtually a matter of hours (Dillow, pp. 319-20).

Another amazing revelation amidst these discoveries is the fact that the stomach content of some of these creatures indicated they had been grazing on vegetation that grows only in warm regions, yet they were quite near the north pole. Scientists were mystified.