An 11 year old boy found a perfectly preserved mammoth carcass in Sopochnaya Karga, which is in Siberia. The body was found lying in frozen mood; it took experts five days to uncover it completely. The enormous creature has been named Zhenya after the boy who found the bones while on a walk with his dogs. The mammoth was well preserved meaning that it will be easier for scientists to carry out numerous tests and analyse the carcass. Scientists estimated that the mammal weighed approximately 500kg, was 2 metres tall and was about 16 years old at the time of its death. They have also stated that the animal could have been killed by a fellow mammoth or by the last ice age; which still makes the carcass extremely old. It was only found with one tusk, but that is still enough for scientists to be able to find out what the poor animal went through during it's life. They can achieve this by cutting the tusk in half and analysing the lines inside; just like we do to find out how old a tree is.
This is an important find because we can still learn a lot from carcasses like these, and they will help us understand what different animal species went through a long time ago.
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