FOX News: Wooly mammoth skeleton found in France

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Wooly mammoth skeleton found in France Nov 7th 2012, 18:17 Published November 07, 2012 Associated Press Oct. 30, 2012: Archeologists working along the Changis-sur-Marne riverbank about 30 miles East of Paris unearthed the rare, near-complete skeleton of a mammoth which has been christened Helmut."AP Photo/Denis Gliksman/Inrap Oct. 30, 2012: Archeologists working along the Changis-sur-Marne riverbank about 30 miles East of Paris unearthied the rare, near-complete skeleton of a mammoth which has been christened Helmut."AP Photo/Denis Gliksman/Inrap Next Slide Previous Slide PARIS –  Archaeologists in France have unearthed a rather hairy fossil -- a nearly complete skeleton of a mammoth. The bones -- thought to belong to a creature that roamed the earth between 200,000 and 50,000 years ago -- were discovered by accident during the excavation of an ancient Roman site 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of Paris. They included four connected vertebrae and a complete pelvis. It may be only the third remains of a long-haired woolly mammoth discovered in France in the last 150 years. Such discoveries are more common in Siberia. Archaeologists will try to establish the circumstances of the long tusked specimen's death: If it drowned in the River Marne or was hunted by Neanderthal Man. It was a French scientist, Georges Cuvier, who first identified the woolly mammoth in 1796. Related Stories Did hiker film Bigfoot, black bear or 'blobsquatch'? Scientists use DNA to ID rarest whale First paws: A history of presidential pets

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