13 April 2007: Mammoth Sale

When a shop advertises a Mammoth Sale it usually just means big reductions in prices. But at Christie's in Paris the sign means just what it says.

In addition to a woolly rhinoceros, a dinosaur egg, a cave bear and a collection of prehistoric fossils, the auction house also hopes to sell a 12 ft 6 inch high tusked mammoth.

Reserve prices have not been announced.