This baby wooly mammoth, a female estimated at six months old when she fell into a river and died, has been almost perfectly preserved for 40,000 years.  National Geographic describes the find in 2007.  As I note in WEIT, some mammoths have been so well preserved that their meat was served at a dinner at New York’s Explorer Club.

Thanks to Jeremy Manier, who does the blog “Science Life” for the University of Chicago Hospitals, for the heads up.