Just 45 inches long and 110 pounds, Lyuba's (the Russian word for "love") remains are so beautifully preserved that she almost looks alive. ...
Lyuba died a gruesome death, but because she sank quickly into muck that became a part of the Siberian permafrost, her remains were preserved for modern science. Because so much of her is intact, she has helped immensely in piecing together what the Ice Age world was like, said Daniel Fisher, a University of Michigan paleontologist.
The mammoth was found three years ago by reindeer herders, washed out of frozen muck along a Siberian river.
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