Siberia, with its mild climate, was once home to many prehistoric animals. The most magnificent of them were mammoths. But global climate change has turned their possessions into a zone of permafrost that has buried furry giants in its bowels. . . In 1999, a mammoth was found on Taimyr, perfectly preserved in its ice tomb. French explorer Bernard Buig extracted a 23-ton block of frozen ground and took the mammoth to an ice cave in Hatanga. There, an international team of scientists began to study
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