The remains of a mammoth found near Lake Pechevalavato in the vicinity of the village of Seyakha in the Yamal region of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug are supposedly 30 thousand years old. Pavel Kosintsev, a senior researcher at the Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told TASS.
The scientific center for the study of the Arctic announced the find on its official website on July 21. The remains of the mammoth were found by local residents. Scientists have already removed all the surviving remains of the animal - this is about 80% of the bones.
"Preliminarily, the mammoth is about 30 thousand years old. Now we are completing the development of a scientific program for the study of these remains. While they will be in Salekhard in the Shemanovsky Museum, because there are conditions for storage. Then the remains are planned to be transferred to different laboratories for research," he said.
Kosintsev noted that a large number of specialists in different cities of Russia will be attracted to study the remains. "It is planned that the research will be carried out in Moscow, in Yekaterinburg, possibly, the research will take place in St. Petersburg," he added.
Earlier, the Scientific Center for the Study of the Arctic emphasized that this is not the first discovery of mammoth remains in the region. The most famous were made in the Yamal region in 1988 and 2007 (mammoths Masha and Lyuba). The richest collection of mammoth bone remains has been collected by scientists on the Gydan Peninsula.
Most of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug is located beyond the Arctic Circle, part - on the slope of the Ural Range. The climate is cold, there is permafrost on the territory of the Okrug, the cold Kara Sea is located nearby, winter lasts up to eight months a year.