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Building in Hokkaidō, Japan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Chūrui Naumann Elephant Museum (忠類ナウマン象記念館, Chūrui Nauman-zō Kinenkan) 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 museums in Japan and the rest of the world now house the reconstructed elephant's remains from the Chrui finds.[1]
Chūrui Naumann Elephant Museum | |
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忠類ナウマン象記念館 | |
General information | |
Address | 383-1 Chūrui Shirogane-machi |
Town or city | Makubetsu, Hokkaidō |
Country | Japan |
Coordinates | 42°33′29″N 143°18′00″E |
Opened | August 1988 |
Website | |
Official website |
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