I found this article on this 42,000 year old baby mammmoth that was found frozen in Siberia. The mammoth was found in 2007, almost perfectly preserved in Sberian river muck with only her hair and toenals missing. Her internal organs, and the contents of her stomach are still in her tiny little body. Scientists have learned a lot about these ancient creatures through this baby mammoth they named Lyuba. They learned that mammoth babies eat their mother's excriments because it gives them bacteria they need for proper digestion. The Russians preserved Lyuba in ethanol and an antifungal agent called methylparaben. She can now be seen at the Field Museum in a traveling exhibit called "Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age".
See the full article at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/08/AR2010030803850.html
See my story about the baby mammoth
http://artandwritings.blogspot.com/2010/12/wooly-mammoth.html
