Lyuba (mammoth)

Lyuba
Common nameLyuba
SpeciesWoolly Mammoth
Agec. 42,000 years (aged c. 1 month)
Place discoveredYamalo-Nenets, Russia
Date discoveredMay 2007
Discovered byYuri Khudi

Lyuba (Russian: Люба) is a female woolly mammoth calf (Mammuthus primigenius) who died c. 42,000 years ago[1][2] at the age of 30 to 35 days.[3] She was formerly the best preserved mammoth mummy in the world (the distinction is now held by Yuka), surpassing Dima, a male mammoth calf mummy which had previously been the best known specimen.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Fisher et al., 2012 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Kosintsev, P; Lapteva, E.; Trofimova, S.; Zanina, O.; Tikhonov, A.; van der Plicht, J. (March 2012). "Environmental reconstruction inferred from the intestinal contents of the Yamal baby mammoth Lyuba (Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach, 1799)". Quaternary International. 255: 231–238. Bibcode:2012QuInt.255..231K. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2011.03.027. S2CID 129303118.
  3. ^ Rountrey, A.; Fisher, D.; Tikhonov, A.; Kosintsev, P.; Lazarev, P.; Boeskorov, G.; Buigues, B. (March 2012). "Early tooth development, gestation, and season of birth in mammoths". Quaternary International. 255: 196–205. Bibcode:2012QuInt.255..196R. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2011.06.006.