40,000-Year-Old Mammoth from Siberia Studied

The pics are fascinating, to see how the baby woolly mammoth is so well-preserved, so be sure to click over to the Times of London for a look:

"The mammoth, known as Lyuba, was about a month old when she died in the Siberian tundra, where she remained until she was discovered by reindeer herders three years ago. Her body was so well preserved in the permafrost that her stomach retained traces of her mother's milk, and scientists identified sediment in her mouth, trunk and throat -- suggesting that she suffocated while struggling to free herself from the mud.

The mammoth has taught researchers much about the species that they had been unable to glean from fossils and other less well-preserved finds, including how brown fat cells on the humped back of the head helped to maintain body temperature. The calf, found in the Arctic Yamal peninsula of Russia, weighed about 110lb, and was about the size of a large dog.

Announcing the start of a tour by Lyuba of palaeontology museums, starting at The Field Museum in Chicago next year and ending at the Natural History Museum in 2014, scientists said that she could provide DNA."