--- 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" 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 ![]() [![Landing the Yakutian baby mammoth "Yuka" outside the Central Artist House before the onset of the Russian Geographical Society Festival. (RIA Novsti/Vitaly Belousov)]()]() *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](), 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 ### Author social links [Facebook]() [LinkedIn]() [Twitter]()