Sopkarga mammoth

Sopkarga mammoth
Mummified remains
Country Russia
Location Found on a hillside
Period 48,000 cal ka BP[1]
Discovered by Yevgeny Salinder
 - date 28 August 2012[2]
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The Sopkarga mammoth, alternately spelled Sopkarginsky mammoth, and informally called Zhenya, after the nickname of its discoverer, is a woolly mammoth carcass[3] found in October 2012. It was discovered 3 kilometres (2 mi)[4] away from the Sopkarga polar weather station[5] on the Taymyr Peninsula in Russia. The Moscow News refers to it as the best preserved mammoth find in the past 100 years.[4]

The remains are those of a male, aged 15 to 16 years,[5] who died c. 48,000 years ago.[1] They weigh over 500 kilograms (1,100 lb), comprising the right half of the body including soft tissue, skin and hair, the skull with one ear, a tusk, bones and reproductive organs.[4]

This find is the best-preserved of its kind since another mammoth was unearthed in 1901 near the Beryozovka River in Yakutia.[4] This makes Zhenya the second-best preserved mammoth ever found.[5]

Over the course of a week, the frozen carcass was extracted using steam, axes, and picks. It was then transported by helicopter to Dudinka, the capital of Taymyr, and placed in an ice chamber.[4]

Zhenya's hump appears to be composed of fat, similar to a camel's hump.[4]

The remains were found by 11-year-old Yevgeny Salinder who lives near the station. His nickname is "Zhenya".[4][5]

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References

  1. 1 2 https://ac.els-cdn.com/S1040618216302105/1-s2.0-S1040618216302105-main.pdf?_tid=9339e67e-0d0d-493b-99be-9498611a2171&acdnat=1519991495_baedf94480d3b95d6780b58748778c4f
  2. ↑ https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1134/S0012496615010068.pdf
  3. ↑ Bond, Anthony (4 October 2012). "Almost intact carcass of 30,000-year-old woolly mammoth found by 11-year-old boy | Mail Online". Daily Mail. London. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8/10/2012+7 °C. "Child discovers a mammoth in Taymyr | RUSSIA". The Moscow News. Archived from the original on 30 October 2012. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Grenoble, Ryan (4 October 2012). "'Zhenya' Mammoth Find In North Russia, Biggest In 100 Years, Made By 11-Year-Old Evgeny Salinder". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2012-10-07.

Coordinates: 71°52′20″N 82°42′42″E / 71.8722°N 82.7117°E / 71.8722; 82.7117

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