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Friday, 8 November 2013

39,000-year-old woolly mammoth to go on show

Comment: If ever there is a synchronistic marker in relation to the growing awareness that a new Little Ice Age may be on the cards in the not too distant future, then this is it.

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The Telegraph

A 39,000-year-old woolly mammoth found in Siberia will go on public display in Taiwan at the weekend.
The mammoth, called Yuka, was found entombed in 2010 inside the arctic ice of Siberia, with its soft tissue and blonde-red wool preserved. 
It is believed to have been about 10-years-old when it died. 
Exhibition organiser Yoshihiro Ota said the mammoth is valuable because of how much of it is intact. 
"Most mammoths found with a complete body were only babies. This is the first time we found a young mammoth with the whole body," he told reporters, as workers prepared Yuka for display. 

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