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Baby Mammoth

Baby Mammoth
Paleontologists rarely find such perfect specimens from the past as this baby mammoth, discovered frozen in an excavation site of northeastern Siberia in 1977. The sketch shows an artist’s idea of the mammoth’s appearance during its lifetime during the Pleistocene Epoch, more than 10,000 years ago. More frequently, drawings are based only on fossils because no other evidence exists.
Dorling Kindersly/UPI/THE BETTMANN ARCHIVE
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Pleistocene Epoch; Paleontology; Mammoth
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