The baby mammoth that was found in Siberia recently is estimated to be about six months of age when it died nearly 40,000 years ago. The baby was 110 pounds and 51 inches long. Scientists named the little girl Lyuda after the Russian hunters wife who found the baby's body sticking out of the ice .

The baby mammoth is in perfect condition; its body is fully intact all she is missing is her long locks that covered all woolly mammoths' bodies. The hairs that were found on the baby are a reddish color. The baby had grass in her stomach, a bit of dung and digested milk the same types of foodstuff that elephants eat today.

The scientific world is excited because they can now determine what made up the mammoths DNA and will eventually open up a treasure cove of valuable information. Researchers are on the verge of piecing together complete genomes of long-dead species such as Neanderthals and mammoths. Researchers think that assembling the genome of ("Neanderthals") or mammoths is just around the corner, possibly in less than ten years. Some scientists do not believe that science will have the ability to grow long dead species while many other scientists disagree. For example some scientists did not believe that you could resurrect the 1918 flu that killed vast amounts of people but science did do just that. They resurrected the flu from a well-kept tissue sample. The ability of resurrecting a wooly mammoth in the future or other long dead species may be closer than you think.