Russian oil workers make mammoth find

Russian oil workers make mammoth find

A tusk of a female woolly mammoth appeared in an excavator bucket as oil workers were undertaking land reclamation work some 50km from Nyagan, a town in the northwest of Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Paleontology museum expert Anton Rezvy, head of the palaeontological department of the Khanty-Mansiysk Museum of Nature and Man, was quickly at the scene of the find [Credit: Anton Rezvy]They started digging with hand... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]