By Vania Raebel | October 9, 2019
A Mammoth Discovery
There’s a good reason why this scientist is grinning from ear to ear: she and her colleagues have just discovered the brains of a woolly mammoth. They did not find the brains in a patch of ice, but in a crumbling glacier on the coast of the Laptev Sea.
There have only ever been a sparse number of preserved mammoth species discovered with brains intact, so this find is quite extraordinary. Upon further investigation, the team learned that the mammoth lived around 39,000 years ago. The poor beast died as a child, though, only seeing six to nine years on Earth. This is most likely the reason why its body was preserved so well.
