MOSCOW, May 29 (The Moscow News/RIA Novosti) – Scientists from the Siberian region of Yakutia have discovered the frozen remains of a mammoth with some blood and flesh still intact, despite thousands of years in sub-zero temperatures, the scholars said at a press conference Wednesday.
“The meat looks pretty fresh, reddish in color in several places. I can’t say that the smell was very fresh, though,” Semyon Grigoryev, head of the expedition and director of the Amosov Mammoth Museum of the North Eastern Federal District, was quoted as saying a day earlier by the Vesti television channel.
The scientists who dug up the carcass described the blood literally squirting out when they poked at the remains.
Continue reading in The Moscow News. Updated: The original story incorrectly stated that the press conference took place Tuesday.
