Ljuba lived 42 thousand years ago

Mamontenok Ljuba found in May, 2007, there lived 42 thousand years ago, instead of 32 thousand years as scientists assumed. To such to conclusions, the paleontologists investigating a cub of a mammoth have come. It as Galina Karzanova has noted, the senior scientific employee of muzejno-expocentre JANAO of Shemanovsky, was possible to establish and a cause of death Mamontenok – it has failed under ice and has choked with silt.

Now scientists prepare remains Mamontenok for a trip to America for participation in paleontologic exhibitions. As they said, Ljuba belongs to branch of mammoths which migrated during lifetime in Sowing. America, and then have returned back on the historical native land, to Yamal.