37,000 Year Old Baby Mammoth
This is pretty cool! I didn't expect them to find such a preserved baby mammoth.
Here is some information about it..
The frozen body of a baby woolly mammoth that died some 37,000 years ago could shed new light on why the giant creatures became extinct. The six-month-old female calf - discovered in the permafrost of northern Siberia by a reindeer herder - is one of the best-preserved mammoths ever found.
Its trunk and eyes were still intact, while it still had some fur left on its body. Its tail and ear were bitten off, probably in a fight with a predator or another mammoth, but there are few clues as to how it died....
So I take it no baby mammoth rides? Darn…
I wish to reproduce the picture of the the 37,000 Year Old Baby Mammoth in my book “Fundamentals of Geology” as an example of a ‘frozen fossil’. I wish I have the necessary permission to do that
A. B. Roy, Emeritus Professor of Geology, Presidency College, Kolkata 700073, India