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Marko Djurica / Reuters
People look at the skeleton of a mammoth at an open-pit coal mine in Kostolac 62 miles southeast of Belgrade on June 27.
What started out as a coal mine near the Serbian town of Kostolac, southeast of Belgrade, has turned into a gold mine for mammoth bones. Archaeologists say they've found the remains of at least five of the ancient beasts, scattered across 20 acres of sandy terrain.
"There are millions of mammoth fragments in the world, but they are rarely so accessible for exploration," Miomir Korac of Serbia's Archaeological Institute told The Associated Press. "A mammoth field can offer incredible information and shed light on what life looked like in these areas during the ice age."
Experts have been finding mammoth remains at the open-pit mining site for years. In 2009, a well-preserved, 16-foot-long mammoth skeleton was discovered about 89 feet (27 meters) beneath the surface. That specimen, nicknamed Vika, was a furless southern mammoth that lived about a million years ago. Another mammoth skeleton, thought to be 500,000 years old and nicknamed Kika, was found at a factory site in northern Serbia in 1996 and is now on display at a museum in Kikinda.
The more recently discovered bones, excavated last month at a depth of about 66 feet (20 meters), appear to be from woolly mammoths that lived tens of thousands of years ago.
"This discovery is interesting because, unusually, there are many bones in one place," Sanja Alaburic, an expert from Serbia's Museum of Natural History, told AP. He speculated that the bones were carried to the site by flooding.
Korac said that colleagues in France and Germany have been contacted for consultation. Unearthing all the bones will require at least six months of work, he said.
Marko Djurica / Reuters
Archaeologists work to find mammoth bones at an open-pit coal mine in Kostolac, 62 miles southeast of Belgrade on June 27.
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According to FauX News Reports conjectured today, This indicates proof that the fossil record is false - What seems incredible must be unbelievable, and therefore false, proving intelligent design, and supporting creation as the only viable system of life generation in the universe.
FOX News' crew of idiots and con men must be burning the midnight oil to conjure up insane lies like that.
According to them they are also fair and balanced. pfft
It only proves that we know very little of our own history let alone that of the planet, and most of what we do know is pure speculation. We will never be able to be 100 percent certain of anything more than a few hundred years in our own past.
There is no bones about it ....
That these are clearly mammoth bones ....
And did not live there a few hundred years ago ....
I wonder if it's a sort of "elephant's graveyard." The skeleton in the picture looks too intact for the bones to have been carried there by flooding, though if the animal was still alive or not decayed when the flood hit it could be explained. But if elephants have graveyards, their cousins may have as well.
I Want One for My Car Mirror!
Earth changes all the time. Climate changes. Species die out. New species are formed. Such is the way of Nature. Adapt or die out.
I'm afraid the human race will perished from the face of the Earth some time in the future also. We are the most intelligent species yet to exists, and that alone scares me more than anything. If you were out in space looking at Earth (a beautiful blue gem), you would think anything living there would all be united as one. We haven't the slightest idea how to take care of our planet. Besides the changing of times and seasons coming and going, it's obvious the hatred in our heart for one another has only increased. It amazes me that not a single year passes by that a country is not in war with itselves, or another country!
and what does that have to do with mammoth bones in Siberia?