Mammoth and Elephants
Skeleton of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) next to two Indian elephants, for size comparison, in a museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The mammoth was found frozen in Siberia and excavated by Michael Friedrich Adams, a Russian naturalist, in 1806. Illustration from Louis Figuier's The World Before the Deluge, 1867 American edition.
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