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Siberian baby mammoth |
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The six month-old baby mammoth, discovered in north-western Siberia, was 130cm tall, weighed fifty kilos, and was dated to the end of the most recent ice age at a time at which most of the great mammals were dying off, unable to adapt to the swiftly changing climatic conditions. |
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