List of mammoths

This is a list of individual mammoth fossil or subfossil remains.

Name Image Location of discovery Date of discovery Approximate age of remains
in years		 Description
Adams mammoth Siberia 1799 36,500[1]
Beresovka mammoth
Buttercup Maly Lyakhovsky Island of the New Siberian Islands archipelago 29 May 2013 10,000 While many mammoths found in permafrost are dried up and mummified, “this was really juicy,” said Herridge, who likened the appearance of the muscle to a “piece of steak — bright red when you cut into the flesh and then as it hit the air, it would go brown.”[2]
Dima Northeast Siberia, near Kirgiljach River
Jarkov Mammoth Taymyr Peninsula, Siberian Federal District 1997 20,000 Discovered by a 9-year-old boy
Lyuba Yamal Peninsula 2007 41,800 Named from the Russian word for "love".[3]
Yuka Siberia 2014 10,000
Zhenya Taymyr Peninsula, Siberian Federal District 2012 30,000 Discovered by an 11-year-old boy

References

  1. ↑ http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mammoths.html
  2. ↑ Emily Chung, (November 26, 2014). "Woolly mammoth 'autopsy' provides flesh and blood samples". CBC News. Archived from [http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/woolly-mammoth-autopsy-provides- flesh-and-blood-samples-1.2849875 the original] Check |url= value (help) on 2015-01-16. Retrieved January 17, 2015. The well-preserved mammoth, nicknamed Buttercup, was discovered buried in the ice on Maily Lyakhovsky Island in May 2013. line feed character in |quote= at position 65 (help); line feed character in |url= at position 67 (help)
  3. ↑ "Mammoth Site Lyuba". The Mammoth Site.
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