Mammoths and Mastodons - Lyuba - 37,000 year old baby

The Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age exhibit opened at the Field Museum in Chicago on March 5 and will run through September 6, 2010.  Undeniably, the wholly intact baby woolly mammoth was the star of the exhibit.  She was only approximately one month old when she suffocated from mud inhalation and had remained in permafrost until she was discovered only three years ago in Siberia.  Lyuba, named after the wife of the reindeer herder who discovered her, is so perfectly preserved that scientists were able to find mother's milk in her stomach and collect DNA.

 Lyuba, the baby woolly mammoth

For more information, please visit:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/5262616/Secrets-of-37000-year-old-baby-mammoth-revealed.html
or
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/mammoths/exhibitionhighlights.asp