Adams mammoth

The Adams mammoth, also known as the Lensky mammoth, is the first woolly mammoth skeleton with skin and flesh still attached to be recovered by scientists. The mostly complete skeleton and flesh were discovered in 1799 by Ossip Shumachov, an Evenki hunter, in Mys Bykov (near Bykovsky, Sakha Republic, Russia), a northeastern Arctic Siberian peninsula on the Lena river delta. The remains were subsequently recovered in 1806, when Russian botanist Mikhail Adams journeyed to the location and collected them.

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