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The Sopkarga mammoth, alternately spelled Sopkarginsky mammoth, and informally called Zhenya, after the nickname of its discoverer, is a
woolly mammoth The woolly mammoth (''Mammuthus primigenius'') is an extinct species of mammoth that lived from the Middle Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch. It was one of the last in a line of mammoth species, beginning with the African ...
carcass found in October 2012. It was discovered away from the Sopkarga polar weather station on the
Taymyr Peninsula The Taymyr Peninsula ( ) is a peninsula in the Far North of Russia, in the Siberian Federal District, that forms the northernmost part of the mainland of Eurasia. Administratively it is part of the Krasnoyarsk Krai Federal subject of Russia. Ge ...
in Russia. ''
The Moscow News ''The Moscow News'', which began publication in 1930, was Russia's oldest English-language newspaper. Many of its feature articles used to be translated from the Russian language '' Moskovskiye Novosti.'' History Soviet Union In 1930 ''The M ...
'' refers to it as the best preserved mammoth find in the past 100 years. The remains are those of a male, aged 15 to 16 years, who died c. 48,000 years ago. They weigh over , comprising the right half of the body including soft tissue, skin and hair, the skull with one ear, a tusk, bones and reproductive organs. This find is the best-preserved of its kind since another mammoth was unearthed in 1901 near the Beryozovka River in
Yakutia Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), is a republics of Russia, republic of Russia, and the largest federal subject of Russia by area. It is located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of one million ...
. This makes Zhenya the second-best preserved mammoth ever found. Over the course of a week, the frozen carcass was extracted using steam, axes, and picks. It was then transported by helicopter to
Dudinka Dudinka (; Nenets: Тут'ын, ''Tutꜧyn'') is a town on the Yenisei River and the administrative center of Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It used to be the administrative center of Taymyr Autonomous Okrug, ...
, the capital of Taymyr, and placed in an ice chamber. Zhenya's hump appears to be composed of fat, similar to a camel's hump. The remains were found by 11-year-old Yevgeny Salinder who lives near the station. His nickname is "Zhenya".


See also

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List of mammoth specimens This list covers mammoth remains which are either notable in their history or preservation. Mass accumulations of mammoth remains are included in the latter portion of this list. List of notable individual fossil or subfossil mammoth remains ...
* Adams mammoth *
Jarkov Mammoth The Jarkov Mammoth (named for the family who discovered it), is a woolly mammothMol, D. et al. (2001). The Jarkov Mammoth: 20,000-Year-Old carcass of a Siberian woolly mammoth ''Mammuthus primigenius'' (Blumenbach, 1799). The World of Elephants, Pr ...
* Lyuba Mammoth * Yuka Mammoth *
Yukagir Mammoth The Yukagir Mammoth is a frozen adult male woolly mammoth specimen found in the autumn of 2002 in northern Yakutia, Arctic Siberia, Russia, and is considered to be an exceptional discovery. The nickname refers to the Siberian village near where i ...


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