Mammoth remains possibly butchered by human hunters found on Arctic Island near Siberia
Mammoth remains possibly butchered by human hunters found on Arctic Island near Siberia The 20,000-year-old remains of a mammoth bear signs of human hunting and butchery. Part of the mammoth skeleton found by the Russian researchers. Credit: I.S. Pavlov. Russian paleontologists were stunned by the discovery of an almost complete mammoth skeleton on Kotelny Island, located in the Arctic close to the Siberian coast, which had thousands of cut marks on it. These marks, as well as stone objects embedded within some of the fossils, indicate that the ancient beast might have been slain and butch...