Skeleton of the Mammoth in the St Petersburg Museum

Skeleton of the Mammoth in the St Petersburg Museum, by edouard Riou (1833"1900). The mammoth depicted in the image is probably the Adams mammoth, which was the first complete woolly mammoth discovered which, when it was found in Siberia in 1799, was virtually intact with its skin and fur attached. It was finally recovered by the Russian botanist Mikhail Adams (1780-1838) in 1806, by which time substantial parts of it had been eaten by wild animals. Lithograph

1799 1806 Botanist Discovered Eaten Edouard Finally Geological Intact Mammoth Recovered Riou Siberia Substantial Virtually Woolly

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