Salon.com > Excavation http://www.salon.com Fri, 24 May 2013 01:55:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Impeccably preserved” woolly mammoth excavated in France http://www.salon.com/2012/11/08/impeccably_preserved_woolly_mammoth_excavated_in_france/ http://www.salon.com/2012/11/08/impeccably_preserved_woolly_mammoth_excavated_in_france/#comments Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:23:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13066784 Archaeologists near Paris Thursday excavated a nearly complete woolly mammoth skeleton. The long-dead mammoth, named "Helmut," is considered remarkable not simply because it is "impeccably preserved" but also because neanderthal-made spearheads were discovered among the bones.

As Salon noted in October following the accidental discovery by a Russian boy of a mammoth carcass, "such discoveries fuel ongoing interest in cloning a mammoth." Scientists in South Korea, Russia and Japan are already working on mammoth cloning projects using stem cells.

The video below gives more details on this latest French discovery:

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