-- MOSCOW, July 11 (Reuters) -- The discovery of a baby mammoth preserved in the Russian permafrost gives researchers their best chance yet to build a genetic map of a species extinct since the Ice Age, a Russian scientist said on Wednesday.
She had been lying in the frozen ground for up to 40,000 years, said Tikhonov.
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At the Russian Academy of Science's Zoological Institute.