Science

Second Well-Preserved Baby Mammoth Found in Russia

A baby wooly mammoth was found by a reindeer herder in the permafrost of Russia’s Arctic, making it the second mammoth calf to be found so well preserved in the same region in the last four years.

As reported by Reuters:

“If it is true what is said about how it is preserved, this will be another sensation of global significance,” expedition leader Natalia Fyodorova said in a statement on the Arctic Yamalo-Nenetsk region’s official website.

Scientists planned to fly the mammoth’s remains to the regional capital Salekhard, where it would be stored in a cooler to prevent the remains from decomposing.

Baby Woolly Mammoth Found by Russian Reindeer Herder

Lyuba is a baby woolly mammoth that was discovered four years ago, also by a reindeer herder. (Photo: Francis Latreille/National Geographic)

The recently discovered giant woolly mammoth, like the 40,000-year-old Lyuba — the giant wooly mammoth calf found four years ago named after the discoverer’s wife — was kept in tact by the arctic ice. According to the Washington Post, Lyuba was the most well-preserved mammoth found at the time with skin and major organs in tact. Scientist have yet to determine the age and level of preservation of this newest addition.

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  • ddg7
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 10:10am

    Since this is the second one that‘s been found they should sell tickets to a baby mammoth barbeque with the proceeds going to help our ’poor chillund’ or to PETA. I mean as the world heats up these things are going to be popping out all over the place.

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    • chazman
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 1:05pm

      … I wonder … does it stink?

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    • Lone Ranger
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 2:04am

      Yes, it probably does stink. Previous mammoths uncovered smelled like wet dogs and moss.

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  • Positive Cynic
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 9:48am

    The conservatives killed that poor little guy :-(

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    • tmplarnite
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 1:20pm

      Good grief…tell me, mr clueless liberal, the truth that must be your 20 year birthday and 4th grade graduation picture…looks do mean everything…

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 1:49pm

      The Cynic was being sarcastic. The picture is by (not of) one Roger Ballen.

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    • Old Truckers
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 3:47pm

      Well, at least he has a picture posted.

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    • strawberryfieldsforever
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:20am

      Hey Lloyd,
      Somebody got it finally!!!! God Bless you. And for the record I am not liberal. Far from it. Just having some fun here.

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    • Positive Cynic
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:36am

      Now it gets real confusing……… for you literates……

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  • ZengaPA65
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 8:47am

    You mean Putin didn’t dig this up with his teeth in front of photographers will he was wrestling Siberian tigers naked with one arm tied behind his back? I’m incredulous.

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    • paulusmaximus
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 10:13am

      Your point is ?

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    • cosmos323232
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:12am

      Actually ZengaPA65 had a wonderful comment. “How can you be so obtuse? Obtuse. Is it deliberate? ”
      Putin is always half naked knocking the USA while doing exactly what Zenga said…”You mean Putin didn’t dig this up with his teeth in front of photographers will he was wrestling Siberian tigers naked with one arm tied behind his back? I’m incredulous.”….come on paulusmaximus get with it :)

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  • BOstinks
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 7:05am

    Has any body tried adding water like you do with orange juice?

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  • Lone Ranger
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 6:15am

    This is a picture of a baby mammoth found four years ago. There have been no pics of the new find released yet.

    I saw the story first on Reuters on Saturday.

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  • sundance_sp
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 4:28am

    I usually peruse a list of at least six news sites as well as news on the TV on a daily basis. I agree with an earlier commenter, The Blaze is the first place I‘ve found this story and a major thank you for spotting interesting news that I don’t find elsewhere. I usually end my evening/days news perusing with The Blaze, and this is a great example of why. Good story!

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  • sillyfreshness
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 1:23am

    I do appreciate some of these stories you don’t see in the mainstream media. Kudos to the Blaze.

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  • sillyfreshness
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 1:18am

    He’s cute. Let’s clone him and bring them back. It does make one wonder just how this animal was preserved like that. Some kind of immediate flash freeze must have happened. That theory has been around since the 1970s, it’s nothing new. There was some kind of immediate freeze and that was before humans could have possibly affected the weather (not that we do even yet today). How it happened remains a mystery.

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  • banjarmon
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 12:36am

    Did they find any signs of Scrat???

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  • blue_sky
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:42pm

    Japanese scientists are working on cloning Mammoth (by implanting an stem-cell embryo into a normal female elephant.) I hope it works.

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  • lajerick
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:17pm

    Maybe Putin found it hunting.

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  • thebigorange
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:14pm

    That’s an elephant.

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    • randy
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 12:03am

      I don’t see any wool on that wooly mammoth.

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    • Old Truckers
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 3:52pm

      And I bet it isn’t even near 40,000 years old.
      Nothing made of flesh and blood can last that long. Even in ice, because ice melts periodically.

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  • SageInWaiting
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:24pm

    Gee… a flash frozen baby mammoth. Now THAT’S climate change. What do WE have to fear with the 1/2F change that’s caused such hysteria? The hundreds of years of coal we have in this country… isn’t that the forest that little guy used to frolic in? Who SAYS there has been a basically static climate on this planet and that WE can cause change, much less stop it’s cycling?

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    • BluifoxEd
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:38pm

      It came from a circus and the tards didn’t know the thing would die in the cold. By the way, where the hell is all the hair?

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  • Elvie
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:56pm

    Seriously? 40,000 years and it still has skin and organs in tact? Critical thinking questions here: How did they determine that date and what assumptions were they using?

    But aside from that—WOW! What a find!

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  • barajas
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:33pm

    Those Gulabal warming people will say all the cavemen and there SUV s killed it

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    • citizen b
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:41pm

      the creationist idiots will say it drowned in noah’s flood.

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    • vehoae
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:12pm

      Kudos!

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    • BloodSweatandTears
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:53pm

      OK Citizen B, How do you explain comets (water) that emanate from this part of our solar system, The WATER vapor rings of Saturn? The pock marks-like craters only on the front of the moon??? Flash frozen mammoths, Rapid cutting of the Grand Canyon, because it lacks erosion markings???? Sea shells on mountain tops??? Global liquefaction that creates fossil stratification??? if you have any of those answers please do tell…and when you finished there please explain how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly in weeks..Evolutionists usually have no reasonable answer..I’m dying to know what you know.

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    • citizen b
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 12:52pm

      @BLOODSWEATANDTEARS you are obviously referring to the discredited hovid young earth “theory.“ the onus is not on me to ”explain” any of those questions because my opinions rest on the weight of evidence. the onus is on you to explain because you are the one espousing a point of view that is against the weight of overwhelming evidence.

      the problem with you creationists (one of them), is that you start with a premise you WANT to believe, then try to bend the facts to your preferred version of reality. well, you are not entitled to your own facts. you might think you are using science, but in fact you merely use the language of science as a window dressing. i would respect you more if you had the balls to come out and say what you really believe: that the world was created by magic.

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    • Old Truckers
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 3:58pm

      Citizen,

      You did not answer his questions.

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    • Oldcarsandguitars
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 5:39pm

      or all that coal they were burning …

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  • Socialism-Sucks
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 8:48pm

    Maybe the Great Obama can cook it up and serve it at the next BBQ!

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  • Cold War Vet
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 8:38pm

    It’s a prehistoric Republican! Better than a donkey…

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  • HD Veteran
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 7:42pm

    Amazing thing is MANY of these beasts are found with FRESH GRASS in their MOUTHS,

    Nothing like rapid death to argues for the flood. The “Well indoctrinated” can move on.

    http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Compelling-Evidence-Creation-Flood/dp/1878026097/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313797302&sr=1-1

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  • cloudsofwar
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 7:25pm

    Remember the movie THE THING, they found that frozen in ice and look what happen.

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  • cloudsofwar
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 7:22pm

    Let the cloning begin. looks like it died walking. Must have been a long walkabout.

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  • PHINEAS T. BLUSTER
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 7:01pm

    Nope….The space motel is right there…Look about 60 degrees above the horizon after dark. Tom Baudet left the light on for us…..See it ? It’s right there. Free INTER-continental breakfast ! Hubble hot cakes and space station STAR bucks Coffee !! ;)

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  • Flybot
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 6:06pm

    It would take over 40 years to get a mammoth from the dna taking from these animals.They would have to use a female elephant and breed 4 generates to get to a full mammoth. Most cloned animals live short lives and have multiable problems health wise so if clponed it wouldnt last long the more complex the creature the harder to clone a living speciman.

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    • imreddog
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:51pm

      Hey Chip, now that’s funny…. :-)))
      Man, it really sucks to be queer… but, but, but… say what?

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  • fastfacts
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 6:03pm

    WHY IS IT THAT RUSSIA IS STARTING TO MAKE ALL THE NEW DISCOVERIES…

    This is quite a find but have you been watching them and their space industry. They are said to overshoot up in a few years. They are growing by leaps and bounds in the space industry: http://url2it.com/grmh

    Now they are hoping to create a space hotel. ( http://www.americanparchment.com )

    Then again they just lost contact with one of their satellites in space, do we want to trust them on keeping contact with a hotel in space???

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    • Cold War Vet
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 8:30pm

      FASTFACTS
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 6:03pm
      WHY IS IT THAT RUSSIA IS STARTING TO MAKE ALL THE NEW DISCOVERIES…
      _____________________________________________________________________________________Because the Obama administration has no need of REAL, actual science. Faked global warming science that can be used to destroy America is OK, but under Obama, curiosity and science is OUT. That filthy communist dirtbag gutted our space agency, NASA. Education in our schools consists mostly of political indoctrination, and little science. We Americans used to be the science leaders until Obama showed up and crashed the party. Now we are entering a scientific dark age under Obama’s evil Anti-American stewardship. Meanwhile, brainwashed liberal-progressives cheer.

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    • Cold War Vet
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 8:36pm

      Also, the main reason the Russians discovered this is because a lot of their nation is in the Arctic Circle, which has tundra, taiga (deep, old forest) and permafrost, and is much colder than elsewhere. Perfect for preserving these wonderful organic specimens. So fresh that there is still undigested food in the stomachs. Also, do a google search on “Bog Butter” and “Bog Bodies” for Scotland and Northern Ireland. Something about the peat bogs also has a nice preservation effect.

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    • Rice Water
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:16pm

      The more interesting discovery is that between 8:30 and 8:36, Cold War went from batshit paranoid-crazy to reasonable & insightful.

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    • lonewolf57
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:25pm

      President John F.Kennedy,with all his faults,would be PISSED to see what has become of NASA under a Communist President.

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  • Patrick Henry II
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 6:00pm

    I wonder if they could clone it? I think it very possible. I wonder if that would be OK?

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  • THX-1138
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 5:17pm

    Wait, I’ve seen those ear before….

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    • lonewolf57
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:22pm

      Hahahaha…but was’nt it a jackass?

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    • CleanUpAisle2013
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:34pm

      @THX-11138: That ear does look familiar. Let’s help him pack his trunk for 2013.
      And @LoneWolf57: I’m certain the one we are thinking about is a jackass, for sure.

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