Discover Siberia

Almost perfectly preserved baby woolly mammoth Lyuba will make its U.S. debut next spring at the Field Museum as part of a “Mammoths and Mastodons” exhibit. Exhibit scheduled to run from March to September. Lyuba will be encased in glass that will afford viewers a 360-degree look.
About Lyuba
Lyuba is a female woolly mammoth which died 40,000 years [...]

In 1977, the well-preserved carcass of a 7- to 8-month old baby woolly mammoth, named “Dima”, was discovered. This carcass was recovered from permafrost on a tributary of the Kolyma River in northeastern Siberia. This baby woolly mammoth weighed approximately 100 kg (220 lb) at death and was 104 cm (41 in) high and 115 [...]

The stuffed Adams mammoth, in The Museum of Zoology, St. Petersburg, Russia

While frozen mammoth carcasses had been excavated by Westerners as early as 1728 (by German scientist Daniel Messerschmidt), the first mammoth fossil fully documented by modern science was unearthed by a hunter in Siberia during 1799, on the banks of the Lena River. The [...]

The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), also called the tundra mammoth, is an extinct species of mammoth. This animal is known from bones and frozen carcasses from northern North America and northern Eurasia with the best preserved carcasses in Siberia.
This mammoth species was first recorded in (possibly 150,000 years old) deposits of the second last glaciationin [...]