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Secrets of 37,000 year old baby mammoth revealed

The body of a 37,000 year old baby mammoth found frozen in the artic tundra is starting to reveal new insights about the now extinct ice age beasts.

Clumps of brown hair still cling to the three foot tall body, hinting at the coarse coat that would have once covered the infant. Even her eylasahes are intact.

These extraordinary images show why scientists are so excited by the discovery of Lyuba – the most complete body of a woolly mammoth ever found

Discovered at the side of a river by reindeer herders on the Yamal Peninsula in northwest Siberia, the bone month old female is helping scientists to unravel how the extinct ice age giants once lived.

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)