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Mammoth Luba came to Australia

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Mammoth Luba came to Australia


21.11.2017

Russian weekly UnificationOne of the oldest Anthropological museums in Sydney, Australia opened exhibition Mammoths - Giants of the Ice Age, Russian weekly Unification – Edinenie reports. Its central showpiece is mammoth Luba that was discovered 10 years ago on Yamal.

It's worth mentioning that Australian museum hosts Russian exhibition not for the first time. Few years ago it has conducted Alexander the Great exposition with showpieces from Hermitage.

Currently exhibited baby mammoth has died more than 40,000 years ago but was excellently stored in permafrost. Workers of Salekhard Museum and Exhibition Complex Tatyana Koptseva and Evgenia Khozyainova and director of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region Evgeny Koltunov came to introduce the unique animal.

Tatyana Koptseva has mentioned that little mammoth has visited already many countries. The mammoth was named in honor of the wife of Reindeer Breeder Yuri Khudi who has discovered it.

Australian museum' paleontologist Mathew Maccari was excited about the exhibit, and marked that sees this kind of showpiece for the first time in his life.

Journalists asked if Luba can be cloned but Salekhard Museum's directed commented that DNA of the mammoth is destroyed.

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