Lier mammoth
The Lier mammoth is the skeleton of a mammoth that was found in 1860 near the Dungelhoeffkazerne in Lier in the Province of Antwerp of Belgium, while digging the diversion canal of the Nete.[1] Its importance was recognised by a military doctor stationed in Lier, François-Joseph Scohy, and the skeleton was excavated, mounted and in 1869 for the first time shown to the public. This was a first skeleton of a mammoth for Western Europe. Only the museum of Saint Petersburg was already in possession of a mammoth skeleton. Because the skeleton is not complete, some bones were recreated in wood.
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Today, the skeleton is preserved in the museum of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels. Since 2018 a 3D printed replica is present at the city's museum.[2]
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- Sur les ossements fossiles Découverts à Lierre le 28 Fevrier 1860, les Bulletins de l'Académie Royale de Belgique, 2e série, tome IX, n. 5
- 250 Years of Natural Sciences
- Le Mammouth de Lier