39,000-year-old woolly mammoth on display in Japan

A 39,000-year-old baby female mammoth named "Yuka," trapped for centuries in Siberian ice, is now on display at a Japanese exhibition hall, NBC News reported Wednesday.

This woolly mammoth is so well-preserved that scientists were able to extract her blood [Credit: UPI]

Discovered in May in the Siberian Islands, Yuka's fur, muscles and even blood were kept remarkably intact by the freezing temperatures.

Scientist Semyon Grigoriev, of the Siberian Mammoths Museum, called Yuka "the best-preserved mammoth in the history of paleontology."