Baby Mammoth Could Shed Light on Warming

January 4th, 2008 in Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Baby Mammoth Could Shed Light on Warming

Naoki Suzuki, left, professor at Japan's Jikei University, explains about the 3-D images of frozen carcass of a 37,000-year-old baby mammoth at a press conference in Tokyo Friday, Jan. 4, 2008. The baby mammoth, Lyuba, which was unearthed in Siberia and brought to Japan last month for tests. It underwent a computed tomography scan to get surgical view and more information about the animal\'s internal structure. At right is Sergey Grishin, director of Shemanovski Memorial Museum. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

(AP) -- Frozen in much the state it died some 37,500 years ago, a Siberian baby mammoth undergoing tests in Japan could finally explain why the beasts were driven to extinction - and shed light on climate change, scientists said Friday.

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