According to National Geographic, a Russian hunter came across a rather rare find in May, 2005 while walking through Russia's remote Arctic regions. He noticed what he thought was a reindeer carcass sticking out of the snow. That reindeer turned out to be a 40,000-year-old baby mammoth, still frozen in the thawing ice.
The six-month-old female mammoth is the most well-preserved example yet found of a mammoth.
The baby was named Lyuba after the hunter's wife and scientists are now using scanners to reveal some of the genetic secrets of the prehistoric giants.
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