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NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Oct 4 An eight-year-old girl discovered the bones of a mammoth and an ancient bison while fishing in the Nizhny Novgorod region, reported on the page of the Nizhny Novgorod Museum-Reserve on the social network VKontakte «.
Maryam Mirsaitova was fishing with her dad on the Oka River in the Novinki area. There on the shore she found unusual objects. Photos of strange finds were sent to employees of the nature department of the Nizhny Novgorod Museum-Reserve, who went to the site to examine the finds.
““The unusual objects turned out to be the bones of extinct animals: the remains of a woolly mammoth, the cervical vertebra of a primitive bison and the bone of an animal that has yet to be identified,” said the Nizhny Novgorod Museum-Reserve.
The bones were in sediments moved from the upper part of the slope suffered a landslide and were washed out by the river. “Now experts are compiling a description of the finds; further processing of the resulting material will be necessary. This is yet another proof of the existence of mammoth fauna on the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod region,” the message emphasizes.