Posted on 10/05/2009 4:09:01 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A baby woolly mammoth, frozen in soil for 40,000 years in Siberia, was so well preserved that traces of her mother's milk were still in her stomach.
Lyuba, who was thought to be just one month old, was discovered three years ago when nomadic reindeer dug her up.
Scientists believe she died after being sucked into a river bed.
Mud was found in her trunk and throat, suggesting she had suffocated.
The body is preserved enough to provide DNA samples, but the prospect cloning the creature is still a long way off.
Researchers found the animals' hump acted like a furnace, which helped maintain body temperature during colder weather.
This supports the theory that mammoths were born in early spring.
Lyuba is being transported to Chicago to be exhibited in the Field Museum, where she will be the star attraction at a mammoths and mastodons exhibit.
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clone it!
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Agreed, I want to hunt mammoth one day!
You gonna do it with a spear and some rocks?
What we all would look like under Obama care.
b) If was perfectly frozen, does that mean steaks this weekend?
/johnny
Sounds like a mammoth undertaking.
I’m too lazy to cite, but I do remember reading in geology class that there are documented Siberian Mammoths that were found frozen, they were chewing buttercup flowers based on what was in the stomach. Interestingly (supposedly) the cells all the way through are in good condition, implying they were “flash frozen” more or less, this isn’t just a winter storm kind of thing, so the story goes. Some of the meat was eaten and found serviceable but most was fed to the sled teams.
Nah... Only Republicans would look like that.
Clone baby clone!
Just turn me loose with one with my opposable thumbs and innate intelligence, and I'll take it from there. I was thinking about throwing small chunks of lead at one from a distance (with an appropriate throwing device).
We whipped their large, fuzzy asses once, we can do it again.
/johnny
Now that you mention it, I see the resemblance to McCain. They should have left it buried.
It probably tastes like jerky at this point. Well aged jerky.
From what I have read the woolly mammoths coats were to keep them cool not to keep them warm and that they are from the sub tropics.
Did they try the paddles on it to jump start it?
The same kind of fat that polar bears have to keep them warm.
Could be since this is a one month old baby that adults would have this fat under the skin of the entire body. It definitely suggest that the mammoth was adapted to arctic climates. .
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