Waking the Baby Mammoth

Posted by Alex in Animal, Science & Tech, Video Clips on April 14, 2009 at 4:35 pm


This is pretty cool: National Geographic Channel has a fantastic feature titled Waking the Baby Mammoth, about the discovery of a well-preserved body of a baby woolly mammoth:

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.

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Previously on Neatorama: Scientists Took CT Scans of a Baby Mammoth


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14 comments to "Waking the Baby Mammoth"

  1. dutchboy
    April 14th, 2009 at 4:40 pm

    Interesting change occuring between then and now. Wow the climate changes without man involved -someone ring a bell.

  2. DOJ
    April 14th, 2009 at 6:03 pm

    Climate changed without man so it's impossible for man to change it?

    I was hoping for more biology and less anthropology in the video.
    Bring on the clones!

  3. Justin
    April 14th, 2009 at 6:16 pm

    Why do some people need to bring up global warming every time there is a video with snow in it? LOOK SNOW, SEE YOU HIPPIE, TREE-HUGGING, NEO-FASCIST, COMMUNISTS ARE WRONG!

    Anyway...

    I just got the latest national geographic that had that baby mammoth on the cover, so I'll have to check it out. I wonder if one day they'll finally be able to clone one of these creatures.

  4. ted
    April 14th, 2009 at 8:42 pm

    Doesn't look like it'll be walking any time soon.

  5. Katey
    April 14th, 2009 at 9:13 pm

    I saw this when it was on TV, the CGI mammoth was pretty friggin' cute!

  6. dutchboy
    April 14th, 2009 at 11:31 pm

    Why do some people need to bring up global warming every time there is a video with snow in it? LOOK SNOW, SEE YOU HIPPIE, TREE-HUGGING, NEO-FASCIST, COMMUNISTS ARE WRONG!

    But everytime ice melts or its hot out GW gets mentioned, how can you possibly acuse my side of doing what your side does all the time.

  7. DaveL
    April 14th, 2009 at 11:32 pm

    Neat link! I'm in the middle of watching the whole series now and hope it ends with a Japanese scientist cloning it!

  8. Evilbeagle
    April 15th, 2009 at 3:43 am

    Very cool. I love this stuff.

  9. Emmy
    April 15th, 2009 at 3:57 am

    could we please ignore the politics and get back to the science?

    so glad this wasn't found a hundred years ago- you know, when they would have made steaks out of her.

  10. SId Morrison
    April 15th, 2009 at 8:35 am

    A little freezerburned, but still tastes like chicken. mmmmmmmmmmm.....

  11. Christophe
    April 15th, 2009 at 2:40 pm

    If you read the 'Polar Shift' novel from Clive Cussler you'll find amazing similarities (on the mammoth find, not the rest). When reality meets fiction.

    I don't care that much of global warming (we'll die anyway), but it should bring some interesting discoveries with the permafrost melting.

  12. Mikael_S
    April 15th, 2009 at 4:57 pm

    Looks kind of flat. Roadkill?

  13. What The Holy Heck
    April 15th, 2009 at 5:02 pm

    Please please please please please clone her.

  14. horned_one24
    April 16th, 2009 at 1:01 pm

    It's really scary to think how close we (scientific community) came to never finding her. Just think of how many others have been found, but where seen as bad omens or bad luck and left to rot.

    It is time to clone her and then breed her with a pig. I want a pot-bellied mammoth of my own!


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