Paris - Scientists have succeeded for the first time in exhuming intact the body of a hairy mammoth, entombed in the Siberian ice after perishing 20,000 years ago, a member of the team said yesterday. Mr Bernard Buigues, a French member of the team, said the mammoth's body was dug out from a site on the Taimyr peninsula, in the far north of Siberia, and flown by helicopter late on Sunday to the town of Khatanga, 250 km away.