constantia hadn't expected this he set out to catch fish but instead the fishermen on the peninsula in syberia put something quite different out there so i was tugging on a skull the whole day from morning till evening then i started poking around in the ground with the stick and i saw more bones. these bones turned out to be quite a sensation they were the remains of a woolly mammoth this species has been largely extinct for over 10000 years the mammoths were larger than today's elephants and weighed up to 5 tonnes researchers were quickly called in and recovered several more bones pieces of a prehistoric puzzle for more than a decade no one in this region has discovered such a well preserved mammoth all of wits about you we don't even know yet what else is in the water there are definitely more remains but we are not yet sure whether it's an entire or partial skeleton. in the next few days scientists plan to bring special tools to this remote region in the north of russia they hope that in the mud at the bottom of the lake they will find more mammoth remains. so for now in baseball f