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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Photo: Baby Mammoth Could Shed Light on Climate Change


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Naoki Suzuki, left, a professor at Japan's Jikei University, explains the three-dimensional images of a 37,000-year-old baby mammoth at a press conference in Tokyo Friday, January 4, 2008.

The long-frozen mammoth carcass was unearthed in Siberia last year and taken to Japan for tests.

Pictured on the right is Sergey Grishin, director of The Shemanovsky Yamal-Nenets Museum in Siberia.

Photograph by Shizuo Kambayashi/AP