The Adams mammoth also known as the Lensky mammoth is the first woolly mammoth skeleton with skin and flesh still attached to be recovered by scientists. The mostly complete skeleton and flesh were discovered in 1799 in the northeastern Arctic Siberia peninsula Mys Bykov (near Bykovsky, Sakha Republic, Russia) on delta Lena river by Ossip Shumachov, an Evenki hunter[1] and subsequently recovered in 1806 when Russian botanist Mikhail Adams journeyed to the location and collected the remains.
- ^ Michael Adams, "Some Account of a Journey to the Frozen-Sea, and of the Discovery of the Remains of a Mammoth." The Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, Part 1, Vol. 3 (1808) pp. 120-137