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Posted on 04/17/2009 11:08:33 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Only a handful have ever been found before. But none like her. Her name is Lyuba. A 1-month-old baby mammoth, she walked the tundra about 40,000 years ago and then died mysteriously. Discovered by a reindeer herder, she miraculously re-appeared on a riverbank in northwestern Siberia in 2007. She is the most perfectly preserved woolly mammoth ever discovered. And she has mesmerized the scientific world with her arrival - creating headlines across the globe. Everyone wants to know... how did she die? What can she tell us about life during the ice age and the Earth's changing climate? Will scientists be able to extract her DNA, and what secrets will it uncover?
(Excerpt) Read more at channel.nationalgeographic.com ...
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This is so awesome! I’m going to watch it for sure.
And to think: We have Al Gore and his Glob Al Warming to thank....
In Solzhenitsyn’s “Gulag Archipelago” the prisoners discover a frozen mammoth and eat it.
Our ancestors thought so, they hunted them! Of course when you are living in the wild and eating whatever you can hunt, I guess anything tastes good!
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