Million-year-old mammoth skeleton found in Serbia
09:06, 5 June 2009
MOSCOW. June 5. KAZINFORM. A mammoth skeleton, believed to be as much as a million years old, has been discovered near the eastern Serbian city of Kostolac, the B92 TV channel said on its website on Thursday; Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.
The unique find was excavated from a surface coal mine close to the Viminacium Archeological Park, an ancient Roman historical site. The bones were buried in a layer of gravel, 27 meters beneath the surface.
"What I can say is that it was over four meters tall, and some five, six meters long, weighing over 10 tons," the website quoted the park chief, Miomir Korac, as saying.
The skeleton possibly belongs to a species of mammoth that migrated to southern Europe from Africa about 1.5 million years ago.
The skeleton will be restored and put on display at the archeological park; Kazinform cites RIA Novosti. See www.en.rian.ru for full version.