11-year-old boy finds 30,000-year-old mammoth in northern Russia

A child has made a unique find on Cape Sopochnaya Kagra in northern Russia. Not just a skeleton, but a complete and well-preserved mammoth.

According to scientists, such finds are very rare and the carcass found by Evgeny Salinder is the second-best preserved mammoth ever discovered in the history of paleontology.

Salinder found the mammoth on Cape Sopochnaya Kagra on the Taimyr Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk Region, some 3,000 kilometres north-east of Moscow, and immediately told his parents, who then got in touch with authorities... read more and watch video.