List of mammoths

This is a list of individual mammoth fossil or subfossil remains.

Name Image Location of discovery Date of discovery Approximate age of remains
in years		 Description
Adams mammoth Siberia 1799 36,500[1]
Beresovka mammoth
Buttercup Maly Lyakhovsky Island of the New Siberian Islands archipelago 29 May 2013 40,000[2][3] While many mammoths found in permafrost are dried up and mummified, “this was really juicy,” said Herridge, who likened the appearance of the muscle to a “piece of steak — bright red when you cut into the flesh and then as it hit the air, it would go brown.”[4]
Dima Northeast Siberia, near Kirgiljach River
Jarkov Mammoth Taymyr Peninsula, Siberian Federal District 1997 20,000 Discovered by a 9-year-old boy
Lyuba Yamal Peninsula 2007 41,800 Named from the Russian word for "love".[5]
Yuka Siberia 2014 39,000[6]
Zhenya Taymyr Peninsula, Siberian Federal District 2012 30,000 Discovered by an 11-year-old boy

References

  1. ↑ http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mammoths.html
  2. ↑ http://www.livescience.com/48769-woolly-mammoth-cloning.html
  3. ↑ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fresh-mammoth-carcass-from-siberia-holds-many-secrets/
  4. ↑ Emily Chung, (November 26, 2014). "Woolly mammoth 'autopsy' provides flesh and blood samples". CBC News. Archived from the original on 2015-01-16. Retrieved January 17, 2015. The well-preserved mammoth, nicknamed Buttercup, was discovered buried in the ice on Maily Lyakhovsky Island in May 2013.
  5. ↑ "Mammoth Site Lyuba". The Mammoth Site.
  6. ↑ http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29815536
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