Mammoth skeleton found in France

Archaeologists in France have unearthed a nearly complete skeleton of a mammoth.

Archaeologists in France have unearthed a nearly complete skeleton of a mammoth.

The bones – thought to belong to a creature that roamed the earth between 200,000 and 50,000 years ago – were discovered by accident during the excavation of an ancient Roman site 30 miles east of Paris.

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