Mammoth Skeleton Unearthed in Serbia
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Archaeologists say a skeleton of a mammoth believed to be about one million years old has been unearthed in eastern Serbia.
Miomir Korac from the Archaeology Institute says the skeleton was discovered at an open-pit coal mine near Kostolac power plant.
Korac says the skeleton is very well preserved. He says the mammoth was more than 4 meters (13 feet) high, 5 meters (16 feet) long and weighed more than 10 tons.
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Korac added Thursday that nearly the entire skeleton has been unearthed since the discovery two days ago. He says the mammoth was a so-called southern mammoth or mammuthus meridionalis, originating from northern Africa.
Another mammoth skeleton, from a much later period, was discovered at a factory in Serbia in 1996 and was named Kika.