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EU Pledges €29M to Clear Danube Wrecks, Mammoth Fossils Unearthed

8/6/2026

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The European Union and the European Investment Bank pledged €29.1 million to remove 21 hazardous World War II wrecks from the Danube by 2028.
Record-low water in Serbia’s Danube has revealed dozens of scuttled German ships from September 1944, with at least 20 now jutting above the surface and forcing large vessels to stop.
Near Ruse, Bulgaria, researcher Nikolay Nenov identified a woolly mammoth jawbone, tusk fragments, a shoulder-blade piece and a femur.

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The European Union and the European Investment Bank pledged €29.1 million to remove 21 hazardous World War II wrecks from the Danube by 2028.
Record-low water in Serbia’s Danube has revealed dozens of scuttled German ships from September 1944, with at least 20 now jutting above the surface and forcing large vessels to stop.
Near Ruse, Bulgaria, researcher Nikolay Nenov identified a woolly mammoth jawbone, tusk fragments, a shoulder-blade piece and a femur.