Chūrui Naumann Elephant Museum
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Chūrui Naumann Elephant Museum
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The Chūrui Naumann Elephant Museum opened in Makubetsu, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1988. It commemorates the chance discovery of a fossilized Naumann's elephant in Chūrui, now Makubetsu, on 26 July 1969, during construction work on a farm road: the youth who unearthed the initial piece with his pickaxe crying out "this is an elephant's tooth" (「これは象の歯だ」). During the course of three subsequent excavations, some forty-seven bones were recovered, representing 70–80% of the total skeleton. Twenty-two museum
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Building in Hokkaidō, Japan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%ABrui_Naumann_Elephant_Museum
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2023-02-20T16:41:47Z
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