Mammoths at auction

A FAMILY of four mammoth skeletons are expected to fetch up to £400,000 at auction. The ice age giants were discovered together in 2002, during building works near the Siberian city of Tomsk.

A male and a female, a teenage daughter and a one-year-old mammoth were unearthed. The oneyear-old is only the second-known almost complete baby mammoth skeleton in the world. Due to their small size, the animals are thought to have experienced unfavourable living conditions and to have died around 12,000 to 16,000 years ago.