Russia - Inglese

Mammoth finds mean big money for the bone hunters of the Arctic Circle

[Times - World]

<b>CHERSKY</b> Prehistoric bones are not hard to find in the northernmost reaches of Siberia. The permafrost is thawing so rapidly that in some places in the tundra, the bones of lions, mammoths and woolly rhinos poke out through the soil every few metres. The storage room of the Ice Age Museum in Moscow, above, where Alexander Svalov holds a mammoth bone, is packed with examples.