Mammuthus primigenus, woolly mammoth jaw


The woolly mammoth jaw seen here is 40,000 years old with an oyster shell growing on it. It was discovered at the bottom of the North Sea revealing that animals once roamed on land that is now flooded by sea.


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Photo credit: © Natural History Museum, London / Alamy / Afripics
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