In the Ice Age in Siberia, lived a very unusual species. Many of them are now no longer on Earth. The largest of these was a mammoth.

Truly inexhaustible ”storehouse” of mammoth bones - this is Siberia. Giant Cemetery Mammoth - New Siberian Islands. In the last century there was mined annually from 8 to 20 tons of elephanttusks. According to the old commercial bulletins, before the First World War, the export of tusks from the North-eastern Siberia was 32 tons per year, which corresponds to approximately 220 pairs of tusks.It is believed that 200 years from Siberia removed the tusks from about 50,000 mammoths. A kilogram of good tusks is a milestoneof 100 dollars for a bare skeleton of a mammoth Japanese firmsnow offer 150 to 300 thousand dollars. Magadan mammothsending it to the 1979 trade show in London to insure 10 million rubles. In the scientific sense, he did not have prices …Since the remains of mammoths found in the giant naturalrefrigerators - in layers, called permafrost, they came to us in good condition. Scientists are concerned not with individual fossils or more bones of the skeletons, and can learn even the blood, muscle, fur of these animals and also determine what they ate. In the most famous instance of the preserved stomach and mouthstuffed with grass and twigs! It is said that in Siberia there are stillsurviving individuals woolly elephants …

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