What's an author's purpose?
"Kostia and Edik's find was big. More than once-in-a-lifetime big. More than once-in-a-millennium big. They had discovered a frozen baby wooly mammoth. People had discovered the bones of mammoths before. They had even found large parts of frozen mammoth bodies. Never had anyone found a mammoth - or any other extinct, prehistoric animal - that was completely whole and so well preserved." - Mammoths and Mastadons: Titans of the Ice Age by Cheryl Bardoe

An author's purpose is the overall main idea or central idea on why the author wrote the article or essay.

Explanation:

If you are asking for the author's purpose in the passage you have included then the author's purpose is to provide information to the reader about the history of the woolly mammoth and the discovery of Kostia and Edik's of the first mammoth.

answer: false i agree with milkshakegrande101.

it u understand what he thought at the time and let u know more about him then what third person would of known probably. hope this : )