Mammoth carcass found in Siberia

A well-preserved mammoth carcass has been found in the permafrost of northern Siberia by an 11-year-old boy. The remains were discovered at the end of August in Sopochnaya Karga, 3,500km (2,200 miles) northeast of Moscow. A team of experts from St Petersburg then spent five days in September extracting the body from frozen mud. The mammoth is estimated to have been around 16 years old when it died; it stood 2m tall and weighed 500kg. It has been named Zhenya, after Zhenya Salinder, the 11-year-old who found the carcass while walking his dogs in the area. Alexei Tikhonov, from the St Petersburg Zoology Institute, who led the team excavating the mammoth, said this specimen could either have been killed by Ice Age humans, or by a rival mammoth. Full Story

What if the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck today?

Photographer Shawn Clover finds the exact spot each photo was taken and waits for the right light conditions. He studied archives of old photos taken at the time of the disaster. Around 25,000 buildings were destroyed by fire that raged for four days after the quake


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