Frozen Baby Mammoth Headed For Chicago

Shirleypal · Post by **Shirleypal** » 10-10-2009 05:11 PM

Sat Oct 3, 9:54 pm ET
CHICAGO (AFP) – Sucked to her death in a muddy river bed, a baby woolly mammoth spent 40,000 years frozen in the Siberian permafrost where her body was so perfectly preserved traces of her mother's milk remained in her belly.

Three years after her discovery by nomadic reindeer herders, Lyuba will head to Chicago as the star of a mammoths and mastodons exhibit at the world-famous Field Museum.

The exhibition, announced at mid-week, opens March 5 and will run through September 6. The Field Museum is the first US museum to display the prehistoric specimen.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091004/ts ... 1004015507

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Baby woolly mammoth provides secrets of survival in Ice Age
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/scie ... e-Age.html

Shirleypal · Post by **Shirleypal** » 10-10-2009 05:15 PM

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Baby woolly mammoth provides secrets of survival in Ice Age
A baby woolly mammoth which spent 40,000 years frozen in the Siberian permafrost, has provided scientists with clues about how the species survived during the Ice Age.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/scie ... e-Age.html