Novobratskoye, Kazakhstan | Discovered Remains of a Mammoth that Lived Around 40 - 15 Thousands Years Ago

Novobratskoye a village in the Bulandy district of the Akmola region, a centrally located region of Kazakhstan, known as Tselinograd Oblast during Soviet rule, a land features diverse landcapes including, plains, steppe, mountains, huge rocks, clear lakes, pine forests and boasting stunning attractions include the Burabay Natural Park known for its lakes and forested mountains and the Korgalzhyn Nature Reserve,  a habitat for diverse birdlife, is the site of the discovery of the lower and bone of a woolly mammoth remains as reported by the Kazinform, international news agency based in Astana. 

The discovery was made on the bank of the Konyr River by employees of the agricultural holding Adilet Omarov and Alzhan Rakishev, who promptly notified the National Museum specialists.The remains are now being kept in the museum’s scientific laboratory under carefully controlled temperature and humidity conditions. 

According to preliminary analysis, the remain belong to a mammoth aged approximately 40 – 50 years that lived around 40 - 15 thousands years ago, and experts believe that a complete skeleton may have been preserved at the site of the discovery. 

The National  Museum of Kazakhstan noted that a scientific team plans to conduct systematic archaeological and palaeontological excavations in the area next season to discover more and if the assumption is confirmed, it will become an important discovery in studying the fauna of the Ice Age in the Central Asian country.

As explained by the museum, this species of mammoth of the exctinct elephantid genus Mammuthus that lived from the late Miocene epoch into the Holocene period,  appeared about 700 thousands years ago, and its last representative become exctinct roughly 10 thousand years ago.

Small populations may have survived until a late as 2000 BC on the northern islands of Siberia. The animals reached a height of 3 - 4 metres and a weight of 5 - 6 tonnes, and thick layer of subcutaneous fat and dense fur helped them survive harsh climatic conditions.

In September, Kazinform reported that near Baiterek, a village in the Almaty Region, a local resident discovered a shinbone of an extinct animal over one metre long while fishing, and it is believed that the mammal inhabited this area about 15 thousands years ago.

Apart these events linked to Kazakhstan, scientists from different countries continue to make archaeological discoveries. In August China Daily, published a report about the discovery of the of  a new dinosaur species in China. The fossils were found back in 2020, and after five years of study, experts confirmed that is the oldest known sauropodomorph in East Asia, a group of an extinct clade of saurischian dinosaurs that includes the largest herbivorous species.

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