A fully skinned, furry mammoth carcass buried under ice for 42,000 years.

The permafrost in Siberia has preserved the remains of a 35-day-old mammoth in the best condition it has been in the last 42,000 years.

Of the few perfectly preserved frozen animals from the Ice Age ever discovered, Lyuba, a young female woolly mammoth, is the most famous specimen, according to Earth Touch News.

Lyuba was born on a late spring day in Siberia about 42,000 years ago. It spent 35 days nursing at its mother's heels before an accident caused it to sink deep into the mud, unable to resurface. The icy mud that led to Lyuba's death contained a mixture of acid-secreting bacteria and permafrost, transforming the baby mammoth's body into one of the world's most well-preserved mammoth specimens.

Yuri Khudi, a reindeer herder on the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia, and his two sons were the first to discover Lyuba's frozen carcass exposed on a stretch of sand along the Yuribey River in May 2007. Khudi and his friend Kirill Serotetto notified local authorities, who came to collect the carcass of the baby mammoth.

Part of Lyuba's tail and right ear were gnawed off by wild dogs, but apart from minor damage, the little animal looked almost perfect. After bringing Lyuba to the Shemanovsky Museum in Salekhard, scientists were able to examine its remains. On the outside, the elephant still had its skin, fur, and even eyelashes. Upon closer examination, the research team discovered its DNA, internal organs, and even its last meal.

From this wealth of information, paleontologists were able to determine every detail about the mammoth's diet. Its stomach was full of milk and plant-based food that was digested twice. The mammoth was 35 days old when it died, and the cause of death was due to silt blocking its airways.

Woolly mammoths were among the most iconic animals of the last Ice Age. For over 100,000 years, they roamed the continents of Europe, Asia, and North America, before disappearing along with many other large mammals in the Pleistocene extinction event.

Lyuba is the centerpiece of the Mammoths – Giants of the Ice Age exhibit, held at the Australian Museum in Sydney from November 2017 to May of the following year. During the exhibit, Lyuba is surrounded by models of adult mammoths acting as a guard herd, keeping the smaller animal at a safe distance from visitors.

According to VNE