Discovery of frozen mammoths. Historical illustration by the Italian illustrator Achille Beltrame, showing scientists uncovering the preserved remains

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Discovery of frozen mammoths. Historical illustration by the Italian illustrator Achille Beltrame, showing scientists uncovering the preserved remains of dead woolly mammoths (Mammuthus sp.) frozen in ice at the North Pole. Image from La Domenica del Corriere newspaper, Italy, 1934.

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