It was discovered 3 kilometres (2 mi)[3] away from the Sopkarga polar weather station[4] on the Taymyr Peninsula in Russia.
The Moscow News refers to it as the best preserved mammoth find in the past 100 years.
[1] They weigh over 500 kilograms (1,100 lb), comprising the right half of the body including soft tissue, skin and hair, the skull with one ear, a tusk, bones and reproductive organs.
[3] This find is the best-preserved of its kind since another mammoth was unearthed in 1901 near the Beryozovka River in Yakutia.
It was then transported by helicopter to Dudinka, the capital of Taymyr, and placed in an ice chamber.