article_snippet: The remains of the woolly mammoth have been unearthed in Siberia by oil workers.
article_snippet: Recent research has shown that many woolly mammoths discovered in Siberia may have originated in North Ameria and migrated across the Bering Strait when sea levels were lower.
article_snippet: Oil workers had been excavating a site 31 miles from Nyagan in Russia (above) when Oil workers found the mammoth.
article_snippet: the mammoth's remains were unearthed about 30 miles from the town of Nyagan in Khanty-Mansi, Russia .
highlights_snippet: The remains of the woolly mammoth were found close to Nyagan in Russia .
  
highlights_snippet: Oil workers for Rosneft hope to carry out tests to find out whether Palaeontologists  had migrated from North America or was part of the native Siberian population of woolly mammoths .