Woolly Mammoth Skeleton Found Outside Paris
Only three have been found in France in the last 150 years
French archaeologists have unearthed a near-complete woolly mammoth skeleton about 30 miles east of Paris along the Changis-sur-Marne riverbank. They named it Helmut. I smell anIce Age spinoff coming on.
The remains date back to between 200,000 and 500,000 years ago and were found near two flint axes, which indicates that poor Helmut had some contact, possibly of the deadly variety, with Neanderthals.
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Aaaa! 200,000 years of anthropogenic global warming!