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Drought-hit Danube gives way to mammoth fossil hunt in Bulgaria

Drought-hit Danube gives way to mammoth fossil hunt in Bulgaria
France 24 Thursday 27 August 2026, 09:58 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read
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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Drought-hit Danube gives way to mammoth fossil hunt in Bulgaria Europe Issued on: Share As drought in Europe brings river levels to record lows, a group of volunteers scans the dried-up Danube riverbank in northern Bulgaria, not far from where the receding waters revealed mammoth bones in July. About 20 volunteers join an effort in the hope of discovering new fossils or artifacts in a search organised by the Regional Museum of History of Ruse.
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