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Dan Fisher is on the Team Studying the Baby Mammoth Lyuba

Paleontologist Dan Fisher told USA Today that clay and soot covering baby mammoth Lyuba helped to preserve her body until she was discovered thousands of years later.  See the article on the University of Michigan News Service here: http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=7099

USA Today article: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2009-04-20-baby-mammoth_N.htm

Dan Fisher and Lyuba appear in the May 2009 National Geographic http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/05/mammoths/mueller-text and in “Waking the Baby Mammoth” 9 p.m. Sunday April 26, 2009 on the National Geographic Channel. Part of this program was filmed at the University of Michigan.

Dan was interviewed on the Today Show on April 24:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/30384951#30384951

And he was on NPR the same morning:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103495155

Dan was also featured on NPR Science Friday on May 1st.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200905013