Baby Mammoth's Innards Scanned

Baby Mammoth's Innards Scanned
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A CT scan of the baby mammoth Lyuba lights up a monitor at a Tokyo medical school. A Japanese team captured 3-D images by February 2008 of individual body parts, such as her liver and heart, though they have not yet been released to the public.

Russian biologist Alexei Tikhonov said, Now we can see all the internal organs in their natural positions inside the body."

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—Photography courtesy Museum in Salekhard
 
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