By Euronews Roma
03/08/2026 - 11:19 GMT+2
On the banks of the Danube near the town of Ryahovo in Bulgaria, the remains of an ancient mammoth have resurfaced. The river, with water levels at record lows because of recent heatwaves, has revealed bones which, according to researchers at the Regional History Museum in Ruse, belong to a specimen of 'Mammuthus primigenius', commonly known as the woolly mammoth.
So far, researchers have identified and recovered a jawbone, tusks, a shoulder blade, ribs and other bone fragments, but much of the skeleton is probably still buried.
The museum's curator, Krasimir Kirov, said that the animal, standing almost five metres tall and weighing more than seven to eight tonnes, may have been carried to that spot by the Danube, where the remains of prehistoric animals have accumulated over millennia.
