---
title: "Best-preserved Mammoth Ever Found Goes on Display in Moscow"
description: "[caption id=\"attachment_32066\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"690\"] Landing the Yakutian baby mammoth \"Yuka\" outside the Central Artist House before the onset of the Russian Geographical Society Festival. (RIA Novsti/Vitaly Belousov)[/caption] This is a 39,000 year old mammoth that was discovered in Russia’s Arctic Circle. Ruka, as she has been dubbed by scientists, recently went on display in Moscow. This is..."
date: "2014-11-01"
modified: "2014-11-01"
authors:
  - name: "Jolene Creighton"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jolene-creighton.md"
url: "https://futurism.com/best-preserved-mammoth-ever-found-goes-display-moscow"
categories:
  - "From Quarks to Quasars"
---

# Best-preserved Mammoth Ever Found Goes on Display in Moscow

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/yuka-mammoth.jpg>)

[![Landing the Yakutian baby mammoth "Yuka" outside the Central Artist House before the onset of the Russian Geographical Society Festival. (RIA Novsti/Vitaly Belousov)](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/yuka-mammoth.jpg>)](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/yuka-mammoth.jpg>)
*Landing the Yakutian baby mammoth "Yuka" outside the Central Artist House before the onset of the Russian Geographical Society Festival. (RIA Novsti/Vitaly Belousov)*

This is a 39,000 year old mammoth that was discovered in Russia’s Arctic Circle. [Ruka](<http://rt.com/news/200215-mammoth-moscow-yuka-lion/>), as she has been dubbed by scientists, recently went on display in Moscow. This is her latest stop on a whirlwind tour of the globe. As she travels from country to country, she is kept in a cryo-chamber where the temperature is maintained at a steady zero degrees Fahrenheit (or -18º Celsius).

Ultimately, she is the most well-preserved specimen that has ever been seen. Really, it looks like it might have died just yesterday.

Scientists think that, at the time of her death, she was somewhere between 6 and 11 years old. This is rather young for a mammoth, as many members of the species are thought to have lived up to 80 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PKX2miV9rs

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