Girl discovers 100,000-year-old mammoth bones in Russian river while fishing with dad

An 8-year-old girl in Russia has discovered a set of mammoth leg bones, as well as a vertebra from a prehistoric bison while fishing with her father along the shores of the Oka River near Novinki, western Russia.

As it turned out, she'd found the condyle, or knee joint, and lower tibia of a woolly mammoth . The bones were reasonably well preserved, with spongy tissue exposed by degradation in the sediment. The size of the bones indicates that they belonged to a large adult mammoth. The researchers suggested the animal likely lived around 100,000 years ago.

Russia is rich in mammoth fossils, particularly in Siberia. Some specimens have even been mummified — a result of frigid environmental conditions that slow decay. Notably, a mummified mammoth calf later named Lyuba was discovered on the Yamal Peninsula in 2007. RELATED STORIES—Bison are being introduced to the Russian Arctic to replace extinct woolly mammoths. But why?—Woolly mammoths were seasonal sex fiends just like elephants, study finds

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