A Siberian region has become the mammoth capital of the world—a source of local pride and a challenge to authorities trying to control the ivory trade
YAKUTSK, Russia—Brimming with pride, Sergei Fyodorov described the discovery of what many in this frigid Siberian outpost consider the find of the century—a perfectly preserved woolly mammoth that had been encased in ice for 28,000 years.
“Some local guys found it,” said Mr. Fyodorov, head of exhibitions at the World Mammoth Museum. It was 2012 when they first spotted a pair of tusks, then what appeared to be an ear, a tail, and a leg emerging from the thawing permafrost.
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