![]() ![]() Soon, like the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland, he would disappear, bit by bit. He now seemed to be casting a dejected glance at the technicians who, mounted on scaffolding, were busy dismembering him. The tibias and fibulas, humeri and femurs had all disappeared, robbing the skeleton of the majesty of its haughty bearing. It was 2:30 pm and the Durfort mammoth already had no legs. ![]() JC DOMENECH/MNHN Tuesday, May 31, 2022, the museum's paleontology gallery, Paris 5 th arrondissement. The mammoth, in the paleontology and comparative anatomy gallery, before dismantling and restoration. Le Monde followed this extraordinary project step by step. It remains one of the world's largest near-complete fossils of a southern mammoth. The fossilized skeleton of the Durfort mammoth, named after the village where it was found, is back where it has been since 1898, after a 13-month absence for a complete restoration and facelift. Long ReadOne of the world's largest near-complete fossils of the southern mammoth is returning to the Museum of Natural History in Paris, after an epic 13-month restoration.Īs of Wednesday, June 28, 2023, the public will once again be able to admire the main guest of the paleontology gallery at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. How Paris's star mammoth was restored By Vahé Ter Minassian Published on June 28, 2023, at 5:00 am (Paris) ![]()
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