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The discovery was made September 22nd, 1901.

The mammoth, a gigantic species of woolly extinct elephant, was found in a great

bed of ice near the Berezovska River. The spot is 3,000 miles by road and river from

Erkutska, the nearest place on the Trans-Ciberian Railroad.

According to the last report received by a telegraph from Urquetska,

the scientists have completed their tremendous journey and were engaged in excavating the body from its 100,000-year-old ice prison,

a remarkable Christmas present to science. They got the math a little bit

wrong. The mammoth had been locked in the permafrost for about 44,000 years, but it was a wow

of a find, almost perfectly preserved with just a few marks here and there. Missing was part of the

trunk, and most but not all of the hair.

The two men who made the discovery, Dr. Otto Hertz and paleontologist Dr. Eugene Fitzinmeier,

stood before it in awe.

It seemed to them, based on the odd way the creature's massive legs were bent beneath its body, that the animal

had fallen from a precipice above and was killed instantly. As they took this marvel in,

the men realized they had a decision to make. What to do with the penis of this enormous prehistoric carcass.

The organ was erect, nearly three feet long, and having been flattened in the icy tundra,

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