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Science 12 January 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5502, pp. 229 - 230
DOI: 10.1126/science.291.5502.229B
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Mammoth Hunters Put Hopes on Ice

Richard Stone

CAMBRIDGE, U.K.--In an anticlimactic ending to last year's TV special, a block of permanently frozen ground hewn from the Siberian tundra appears to contain only scattered remains of a woolly mammoth. But researchers say that the team's brute-force method of hauling remains to a lab for study while they are still frozen holds promise for more-intact specimens unearthed on future expeditions.

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