ANOTHER FROZEN MAMMOTH

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 122, 23 May 1908, Page 10

ANOTHER FROZEN MAMMOTH

The Acaderiiy of Science at St. Petersburg has just despatched n wellequipped expedition to the valley of Santauriakh, in Northern Siberia, in order to excavate the remains of the mammoth which has beep disrovp.red two hundred miles' from the village of Kasachia. The cranium and part of the right foreleg were exposed through the action of water, and hair covered flesh was found adhering to the bones. -The Artie foxes had actually begun to oat it, and water has now been poured over the exposed remains so as to form a protective coating of ice. The scene of the discovery is so remote that the journey there will ocenpy the expedition two months. The remains are ' to be transported by come fifty sledges, drawn by reindeer, to the river Lena, and the final stage of the journey— from Irkutsk to St. Petersburg — will be completed, by tram. Russian naturalists attach the greater value to the discovery, inasmuch as the mammoth now exhibited in the Zoological Museum at St. Petersburg is known not to have reached full development. It is estimated to havo attained only twenty-five years. Thesß mammoths are believed to have lived about a hundred thousand yeara ago. The remains of the first ono discovered were in such excellent presorvation that some of the remnants of flesh, after being thawed, salted, and cooked, were actually eaten out of curiosity by some Eussian men ot science.