On Sunday, April 26, 2009, National Geographic will premiere a documentary video on the discovery and investigation of Lyuba, a female woolly mammoth of about one to two months in age who suffocated in a muddy river bed about 40,000 years ago.
The baby mammoth named Lyuba was discovered by the Nenets reindeer herder named Yuri Khudi, in the Yamal peninsula of Siberia. Named after Yuri's wife (her name means "love" in Russian), Lyuba is the most recent of five baby mammoths so far discovered in the arctic. Lyuba is the best preserved baby woolly mammoth ever discovered, trunk, skin, internal organs, hair, all intact and in frankly amazing shape. "Finding ivory is bad luck, but sharing it transforms its power into a force of good," is an old Nenets proverb, and it is central to the meaning of Waking the Baby Mammoth. The main researchers in the video are downright haunted by a CGI reconstruction of Lyuba
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