About 38,000-years old and in surprisingly good shape, the carcass of a woolly mammoth went on display in Moscow on Tuesday.
Scientists, who found the teenage female mammoth in 2010 in Russia's far north region of Yakutia, named it Yuka.
Locals first noticed it in 2009, but in 2010 the carcass became completely exposed.
Yuka had gone on display in Japan, Taiwan and Russia's city of Vladivostok before it was exhibited in Moscow.
"Mammoth Yuka was a teenager, she was from six to nine years. She was very well preserved, even the brain was preserved," Vladimir Potapov, coordinator of International exhibition project "Mammoth Yuka" said.
Albert Protopopov, a mammoth expert from the Yakutia Academy of Sciences said Yuka's carcass bore traces indicating that humans hunted for mammoths during the Ice Age.
The age of the mammoth suggests that people lived in Yakutia earlier than previously thought.
"The known sites of the ancient people in Yakutia are 32 thousand years old, and this mammoth is 38 thousand years," Protopopov said.
Wooly mammoths are thought to have died out around 10,000 years ago, although scientists think small groups of them lived longer in Alaska and on islands off Siberia.
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