Bare bones: Here’s an auction lot with a truly mammoth price tag

A family of four mammoth skeletons are expected to fetch up to £400,000 at auction in England. 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 baby mammoth were unearthed, after construction workers noticed bones close to where they had started work.

The one-year-old is only the second known almost complete baby mammoth skeleton in the world.