JERSEY CITY — A 42,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth that has been on display at Chicago’s Field Museum since March is getting ready to make her way to New Jersey, according to the Associated Press.
Scientists say the mammoth calf named Lyuba (Lee-OO-bah) is the best preserved and most complete mammoth specimen known. She made her United States debut in Chicago in March. Monday is her last day on display at the Field Museum.
Lyuba is next headed to the Liberty Science Center as part of a tour that will take her to Alaska, California, Colorado, Massachusetts and Missouri.
A reindeer herder in northern Siberia’s remote Yamal-Nenets autonomous region found Lyuba in 2007.
The 45-inch long, 92-pound mammoth is named for his wife.