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Lyuba is coming to the Field Museum in Chicago

Lyuba, the best-preserved woolly mammoth ever found, is coming to the Field Museum in Chicago. Lyuba was only one month old when she died 40,000 years ago. She was discovered in 2007 by a Siberian reindeer herder and his two sons, and was featured in the May 2009 National Geographic magazine.

University of Michigan paleontologist Dan Fisher is the lead curator of the exhibit "Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age" which will run March 5-September 6, 2010.

See the September 30 Chicago Sun-Times article, which mentions that the exhibit will include more than 100 artifacts and specimens, including some more than 30 million years old.

See also the Field Museum web site http://www.fieldmuseum.org/exhibits/ for more information.