A mammoth occasion: post #200

The BBC reports that fishermen in Siberia have discovered a complete mammoth skeleton. The find is described as very rare. Indeed, "Alexander Kerzhayev, deputy director of the museum in the small town of Novoselovo, says it is the most significant find he can remember [but] his museum has neither the equipment nor the money to dig out the mammoth." Kerzhayev says it would be a pity just to leave the mammoth where it is, on the shore of a reservoir, but that "no one seems to care".

"Some experts are now suggesting that climate change is leading to discoveries which might otherwise have remained hidden in frozen ground," says the BBC.

And this is my 200th post.