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Danube low water reveals mammoth bones

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Record‑low water levels on the Danube in late July 2026 exposed a fragmentary woolly mammoth skeleton near the village of Ryahovo, close to Ruse, Bulgaria. A local resident alerted the Regional History Museum, whose director Nikolay Nenov confirmed the find of curators identified a lower jaw, mandible, two tusk pieces, fragments, a rib shoulder blade, ribs and a femur other bone pieces belonging to a young individual. Scientists plan further study to determine the exact age and origin of the remains. Two days later, museum specialists reported additional bone fragments and refined the age estimate to between 7,000 and 10,000 years. Conservator Krasimir Kirov suggested years, suggesting the river may have transported the remains to the site. The bones are being conserved Conservator Krasimir Kirov emphasized careful conservation for future display, and the unusually low flow is also uncovering other historic objects—such as World‑War‑II ordnance and shipwrecks—throughout the Danube’s ten‑country basin, highlighting the broader environmental impact of the drought. display. On 1 August, researchers from the Regional Museum of History of Ruse reported that the heat‑wave‑driven low water had revealed further fragments, including a scapula and additional ribs, confirming confirmed the animal was as a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) about five metres tall and weighing seven to eight tonnes. The team is carefully extracting the bones tonnes, and began careful extraction to prevent rapid deterioration before they are displayed exhibition in Ruse. The same drought conditions have drought‑driven low water has also exposed rocks, sandbanks and revealed World‑War‑II German warship wrecks shipwrecks in Hungary and Serbia, Serbia and forced the temporary shutdown of Hungary’s Paks nuclear plant because the river water is too shallow for cooling.

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