A tragedy 42,000 years ago is making for excitement in Chicago this week, reports the Chicago Tribune. The incredibly well-preserved remains of a baby mammoth that fell into a Siberian mud hole and suffocated will go on display for the public Friday at the Field Museum. (The exhibit will be at the Anchorage Museum March 4 to Oct. 9, 2011.) Continued on jump

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.