A group of Russian scientists has obtained the most precise images obtained until the moment of the interior of a prehistoric animal thanks to the scanner carried out a breeding last year of mammoth of some found intact four months in Russian Ártico and that you have received the name of Liuba, that of the hunter's woman that found to the baby-mammoth one.The body of the animal was returned to Russia in February passed after being studied in Japan, where they took the images.
"We could see for the first time how the interior organs are located in a mammoth one. This is very important from a scientific" point of view, Alexei has pointed out Tikhonov, subdirector of the Institute of the Russian Academy of Science who have directed the project. "Your interior organs were well preserved, the heart still conserved the ventricles and the atriums, the liver was under good conditions and the veins" could still be observed, you have explained.
The discovery of Liuba is very important from the scientific point of view because you are about the breeding of mammoth better preserved, thanks to the ice, of all the found up to now in the entire world.
"In my opinion, you are about a very important" discovery, Natalia declared Fiódorova subdirectora of the Museum of Natural History of the city of Salejar, to where the paleontological discovery arrived.
Of 1,7 meters of high, 3 meters long and near 400 kilograms of weight, the mammoth one congealed you have intact an eye and part of the trumpet, the scientist told to the agency Itar-Tass.
You explained that the remains of the prehistoric animal were found at the beginning of month by a shepherd of reindeers in a bend of the river Yuribel, near your outlet in the sea of Kara.
With the help of special teams, Russian paleontologists dug the remains of mammoth of the congealed floor, where bones and eyeteeth of mature mamuts were also found.
Fiódorova indicated that the discovered piece is the second breeding of mammoth discovered beside Yuribel, river that remain congealed of October to June.
You remembered that in 1998 the remains of a mammoth one of four months were discovered that currently is exposed in the Museum of Zoological History of San Petersburgo with the name of mammoth "Masha."
According to the good known theories, the mamuts appeared in África you make 3 or 4 million years, they migrated toward Europe and Asia makes two million years, until arriving in America of the North going by the strait of Bering, 500.000 years ago.
For the science it continues being an incognito one the cause of your extinction that began about 11.000 years ago, when the population of these animals began to descend approximately about 3.600 years ago until the total extermination of the last Siberian copies.
