The perfectly preserved carcass of the ancient giant was sold to a French businessman for €548,250 ($644,234) at an auction held in Lyon on Saturday.
The striking artifact was carefully assembled and mounted in a forward walking position with its enormous curved tusks pointing downwards, the Mail Online reported.
Despite its advanced age, the 11.2-feet-tall and 16.4-feet-long skeleton has remarkably retained 80 per cent of its original bones, including a pair of huge curved tusks.
The remains of the hairy giant, which roamed North America and Russia’s Siberia thousands of years ago, was discovered in northwestern Siberia about a decade ago, Deutsche Welle reported.
It belonged to a local hunter who had preserved the remains at his home.
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Woolly mammoths became extinct about 3,700 years ago due to overhunting and a warming climate.
