article_snippet: Tests on bones found scattered across the frozen Russian wilderness are rewriting the evolutionary history of the animal, which stood seven feet (two metres) tall and had majestic antlers with a 10 foot (three-metre) span.
article_snippet: Analysis of bones unearthed in Western Siberia revealed Analysis of bones unearthed in Western Siberia are just 8,800 years old and date back to about 6,800BC.
article_snippet: Tests on bones found scattered across the frozen Russian wilderness are re-writing the evolutionary history of the animal, which stood seven feet (two metres) tall and had majestic antlers with a 10 foot (three metre) span.
article_snippet: A set of remains found in 1886 near Yekaterinburg, in the Urals region of Russia, were analysed in 2004 by Dr Anthony Stuart, who is now at Durham University.
article_snippet: That theory has now been confirmed by new tests on other bones and fossils uncovered across Siberia over the past 15 years.
article_snippet: Among remains examined as part of the new research were fragments of antlers discovered in Baraba steppe, in Western Siberia, and a jaw complete with teeth in a burial ground called Preobrazhenka 6 in the same region.
highlights_snippet: Bones studied were found in various locations in western Siberia .