Frozen Baby Mammoth Goes On Display - Spokane, North Idaho News & Weather KHQ.com

HUFFINGTONPOST.COM - Meet Lyuba, the world's best-preserved baby mammoth. Discovered in 2007 by a reindeer herder in the Siberian permafrost of the remote Yamal Peninsula, the mummified fossil of a one-month-old mammoth is more than 42,000 years old.

In 2010, when Lyuba was on display at Chicago's Field Museum, the Chicago Tribune reported that the mammoth is "almost perfectly intact right down to her baby fat" after spending thousands of years trapped in "frigid river muck."

Lyuba is now preserved in special desiccative packaging that removes all moisture from its body tissues, according to the Tribune.

The Ice Age relic will be on display at Hong Kong's IFC Mall on April 12, courtesy of Russia's Shemanovsky Museum. Lyuba will later travel to China, Indonesia, Singapore and Taiwan, according to MSNBC. click here to read more and to look at the photos