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April 14, 2014

Crews use heavy equipment to move mammoth skeleton

  • A structure made of rubber and sand was used to protect the million-year-old skeleton found in a mine in Serbia.

    • KOSTOLAC, Serbia (AP) — Serbian archaeologists last week used heavy machinery to move a female mammoth skeleton — believed to be one million years old — from an open mine pit where it was unearthed nearly five years ago.

    Workers with cranes and bulldozers worked carefully for hours at the Kostolac coal mine in eastern Serbia to transfer the mammoth, known as Vika, to an exhibition area several kilometers away.


     
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