Mystery Solved: Why Mammoths Were Humped

The increasing melting of the permafrost, the frozen ground of the north, due to the global warming, is exposing increasingly more frozen mammoths. Now, even calves. In May 2007, a complete frozen body of a 6-year-old mammoth calf was found in the Yamalo-Nenetsk region of the Arctic Russia. O... [ read more >> ]

Woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius)

The mammoth calf discovered in May 2007

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The mammoth calf discovered in May 2007