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Mammoth found on the shore of the Taganrog Bay

For 6 days on the shore of the Taganrog Bay, paleontologists of the Azov Museum worked to save the skull of a trogontherian mammoth. For several years, scientists have been finding his remains. This is the largest representative of the proboscis. The bones are gradually collected and restored. In the beginning of December, a local resident Sergei Dubovsky noticed the bone while inspecting the coast and reported it to the Azov Museum. Everyone thought it was a mammoth shoulder blade, but it turned out to be the skull of a trogontherian mammoth. Head of rescue operations Galina Timonina, head of the department of paleontology of the Azov Museum-Reserve.

A wooden box was built to preserve it, not to be destroyed during transportation. The weight of the skull was about 400 kg, it was impossible to lift it up. The distance to the nearest possible transport access to the water is about 4 kilometers.

They took a car trailer from a local resident, loaded the box with the find and pulled it by hand. The skull was sent to the Azov Museum.

mammoth skulls, which are found, brittle, porous bones. Previously, the skulls were found destroyed, without the upper part, but this time the specimen is more intact and the top is seen forked, which changes the early idea in the reconstruction of the head of the trogontheric mammoth - this is a scientific discovery.

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