Remarkable Discovery of the Amazing Ginger Mammoth, Killed by Cavemen 10,000 Years Ago, Found Perfectly Preserved with an Intact Brain
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The shaggy ginger coat is just as bright as it was when the animal wandered over the ice-covered terrain.
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Its eyes, foot pads and even internal organs are all intact. Yet this is a young woolly mammoth – which lived more than 10,000 years ago.
Its perfectly preserved body was discovered in the frozen ground of Siberia by tusk-hunters, who handed it over to scientists.
Red alert: Ginger Yuka is around 10,000 years old and is pictured here with some of the team that studied her
While many bones have been found before – so we have an idea of how the legendary creatures looked when they roamed the icy plains – this is unique in being an almost entire frozen carcass.
The mammoth, which was three to four years old when it died, was found in the Ust-Yansky region of Yakutia, the remotest part of Siberia.
Most remarkable is the fact that it had two clean cuts on its back and several bones had been removed including its spine, skull, ribs and pelvis. The skull was found nearby.
A long straight cut stretches from its head to the centre of its back, as well as an ‘unusual patterned opening’ on the right flank made of small serrations as if from a primitive saw-like tool. This skilful butchery could not have been the work of a predator such as a lion, and was probably the work of cavemen eking out a living during the Ice Age.
Although mammoths featured in cave paintings from the time, this is the first evidence that humans preyed on them in the days when ice sheets covered 40 per cent of the northern hemisphere.
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The mammoth appears to have escaped another predator at an earlier stage as it had a broken leg and other injuries, which suggest an epic struggle
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Mammoths evolved from African elephants when the Ice Age set in. They were around twice the size of today’s elephants and weighed up to eight tonnes
The find suggests humans may have contributed to their extinction, before the creatures were finally wiped out in the great thaw ten millennia ago.
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The 6ft-long mammoth, nicknamed Yuka, appears to have escaped another predator at an earlier stage as it had a broken leg and other injuries which suggest an epic struggle.
Daniel Fisher, professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Michigan and a world expert on mammoths, said: ‘There is dramatic evidence of a life-and-death struggle between Yuka and some top predator, probably a lion. Even more interesting, there are hints that humans may have taken over the kill at an early stage.
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Hair we go: Woolly mammoths were similar in height to African elephants
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Yuka has been preserved in spectacularly good condition and is the first mammoth carcasss to be pulled from the ice with its ginger fur still attached
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The discovery has been described as being of ‘huge’ significance – and could be the first direct evidence of early man having attacked mammoths
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The ‘strawberry blonde’ mammoth is the first of its kind ever found
‘Were humans using the lions to catch mammoths and then moving the lions off their kill?’