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Lubya the woolly mammoth

From Nine To Noon 28 May 2014

Lubya was found in 2007 on the Yamal peninsula in northwestern Siberia where she had been perfectly preserved in ice for more than 40 thousand years.

Lyuba is the world's best preserved and most complete mammoth. Lyuba © International Mammoth Committee/Francis Latreille

Lyuba was discovered by reindeer herder Yuri Khudi and his sons along along the frozen Yuribei River in May 2007. Lyuba after discovery © Shemanovsky Museum - Exhibition Complex.

Yuri Khudi and his sons discovered Lyuba in Russia’s Yamal Peninsula of Siberia in May 2007. Yuri Khudi and son © Shemanovsky Museum - Exhibition Complex.

After the discovery, Lyuba was sent to the Shemanovsky Museum - Exhibition Complex in Salekhard, Russia. Lyuba discovery © Shemanovsky Museum - Exhibition Complex

After the discovery, Lyuba was studied at the Shemanovsky Museum - Exhibition Complex by an international team of scientists. Lyuba in lab © RIA Novosti

Lyuba is owned by the The Yamal-Nenets Regional Museum-Exhibition Complex named after I.S. Shemanovsky. Lyuba in Mammoths: Ice Age Giants exhibition © NHM. London

Illustration of what Lyuba would have looked like when she died over 42,000 years ago. Lyuba illustration, by Velizar Simeonovski © The Field Museum, Chicago.

Woolly mammoths, illustration by Velizar Simeonovski © The Field Museum.

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