Frozen Mammoth Found With Flowing Blood (VIDEO)

By Slate Video Staff

While excavating the frozen remains of an adult female mammoth on an island off northern Russia, researchers pierced ice cavities below the belly of the animal with a pick and were met with the sight of dark blood flowing out of the holes.

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