Woolly mammoths resurfacing in Siberia
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 13:07
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The bones and tusks of the ancient creatures are becoming more prevalent as permafrost thaws. Now entire villages are surviving on the trade in mammoth bones. The beasts had long lain extinct and forgotten, embedded deep in the frozen turf, bodies swaddled in Earth's layers for thousands of years before Christ.