Perfectly Preserved Woolly Mammoth Skeleton Found Near Paris

[jaykray]

[quote]A well conserved skeleton of a woolly mammoth Helmut from at least 200,000 years ago has been dug up near Paris, it has been revealed.
Helmut – as the creature has been nicknamed – died aged about 30 and was 9 feet tall with even longer tusks.
The mammoth’s tusks and bones were found next to two flint blades – suggesting that it was hunted by Neanderthals and cut up.
“Some archaeologists spend their lives dreaming of such a discovery with no luck,” the Mirror quoted Greg Bale, who led the dig at Changis-sur-Marne, as saying.
The bones were discovered by accident during the excavation of an ancient Roman site 30 miles east of Paris.

The skeleton will be taken to Paris’s Natural History Museum, where it will eventually go on public display.[/quote]

[IMG]http://www.phenomenica.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/mammoth1.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://www.phenomenica.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/mammoth2.jpg[/IMG]

[Fire Feure]

Beautiful.

[peterson]

Goes to show, you never really know what is right under your feet.

[sambooo]

Reminds me of that mammoth skeleton some kid just stumbled across a few weeks ago

[jaykray]

[video=youtube;TzoTf8gicvQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzoTf8gicvQ[/video]

[BaconMan_lol]

"Perfectly Preserved" I expected something much better then this [img]http://www.phenomenica.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/mammoth1.jpg[/img]

[jamzzster]

[QUOTE=BaconMan_lol;38386359]"Perfectly Preserved" I expected something much better then this [img]http://www.phenomenica.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/mammoth1.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]

Did you expect it to greet them with hugs?

[Paul-Simon]

[QUOTE=jamzzster;38386518]Did you expect it to greet them with hugs?[/QUOTE]

expected a perfectly preserved one

[Eeshton]

[QUOTE=peterson;38383942]Goes to show, you never really know what is right under your feet.[/QUOTE]

usually the ground

[Erfly]

[QUOTE=paul simon;38386544]expected a perfectly preserved one[/QUOTE]

The bones look pretty good to me.

[jaykray]

[QUOTE=paul simon;38386544]expected a perfectly preserved one[/QUOTE]

The headline is "perfectly preserved mammoth [b]skeleton[/b] found near paris"

[0FucksGiven]

[QUOTE=jaykray;38389076]The headline is "perfectly preserved mammoth [b]skeleton[/b] found near paris"[/QUOTE]

if there's something I learned from facepunch is a handful of people can't even be bothered to read the titles, let alone the first post of the thread.

[Reds]

For some reason when I heard 'perfectly preserved', I got this mental image of a mammoth skeleton frozen in a block of ice.