Baby woolly mammoth goes on display in Hong Kong

An almost perfectly preserved baby woolly mammoth who lived 42,000 years ago began the Asian leg of a four-year world tour on Tuesday. 


The one month-old practically intact female mammoth was found in 2007 by a Siberian reindeer herder and his sons. 

Scientists believe the infant Ice Age mammal died after falling into mud near a river. 

Named after the herder's wife, Lyuba, the world's best preserved woolly mammoth is now on display at a high-end shopping mall in Hong Kong. 

On loan from the Shemanovskiy Museum and Exhibition Centre in Russia, Lyuba has already wowed viewers in ten North American cities. 

In all, audiences from ten countries will be able to view the unique Ice Age specimen, whose skin, trunk and ears are still intact after being preserved in permafrost for thousands of years.