Data from: X-Ray computed tomography of two mammoth calf mummies

• Main Authors: Fisher, Daniel C., Shirley, Ethan A., Whalen, Christopher D., Calamari, Zachary T., Rountrey, Adam N., Tikhonov, Alexei N., Buigues, Bernard, Lacombat, Frédéric, Grigoriev, Semyon, Lazarev, Piotr A.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Life sciences; medicine and health care; Arctic; Yamal Peninsula; Khroma; permafrost; Yakutia
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-ll-hljs; https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:85636

Two female woolly mammoth neonates from permafrost in the Siberian Arctic are the most complete mammoth specimens known. Lyuba, found on the Yamal Peninsula, and Khroma, from northernmost Yakutia, died at ages of approximately one and two months, respectively. Both specimens were CT-scanned, yieldin...