Mammoth remains found

BELGRADE, Serbia – A well-preserved skeleton of a mammoth that is believed to be about 1 million years old has been unearthed in eastern Serbia.

The discovery was made during excavation two days ago at an open-pit coal mine near Kostolac power plant, said Miomir Korac, from Serbia’s Archaeology Institute.

The skeleton was found 89 feet below ground, he said. The mammoth was more than 13 feet high, 16 feet long and weighed more than 10 tons.

“It is very well-preserved with only slight damage to the skull and the tusks,” Korac told the AP.

Korac said the mammoth was a southern mammoth, or mammuthus meridionalis. He said this kind of mammoth had no fur.