A baby mammoth that lay almost perfectly preserved for 50,000 years in the now-melting permafrost of eastern Siberia has been unveiled by a team of scientists. The mammoth was a “unique research ...

These scientists made a mammoth discovery — literally. Remains of a baby mammoth that has been almost perfectly preserved for 50,000 years have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia.

This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Tusk and Sunset A mammoth’s tusk spikes the Siberian sky on Bolshoy Lyakhovskiy Island. Tusks that are discovered with ...