IFC Mall packed with visitors Image from Locky's English Playground |
Earth-shakingly cool! Image from Locky's English Playground |
but you can even get up close to almost touch it, walk below it, raise your head to look directly at its teeth and jaws,
Huge animal with few teeth Image from Locky's English Playground |
Powerful tusks Image from Locky's English Playground |
Then of course, the main focus of the exhibition, the one that everybody wants to get on film,
the most well-preserved specimen ever!!! Siberian female baby mammoth Lyuba!!!
Died 40,000 years ago at the age of one month, Lyuba gave scientists valuable information on the mammoth's diet and eating habits as its organs were completely intact.
At the size of a It is hard to believe that it will eventually turn into a 4 metre tall earth-shaker!!
Lyuba still in the snow Image from Locky's English Playground |
Frozen Lyuba in Japan Image from Locky's English Playground |
Cousins of Lyuba -- Dima (Top left), Khroma (Right) Image from Locky's English Playground |
Updated:
For more amazing readings on mammoths, please see read Woolly mammoth on Wikipedia (under the Resources section) and THE YUKAGIR MAMMOTH.
The preserved baby woolly mammoth named Dima Image from Wikipedia |
Vocabulary:
woolly mammoth -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_mammoth
Image from Wikipedia |
monstrous-- (adj) like a monster
tusk -- (n) [C] either of the two long pointed teeth which stick out from the mouth of some animals such as elephants
specimen -- (n) [C] something shown or examined as an example; a typical example
Siberian -- (adj) from Siberia
Image from Wikipedia |
intact -- (adj) complete and in the original state / not damaged
excavation -- (n)[C or U] removal of earth that is covering very old objects buried in the ground in order to discover things about the past
earth-shaker -- (n) sth that is so heavy that it shakes the ground when it moves
Resources:
I Love Baby Lyuba @ IFC
www.ifc.com.hk/lyuba/
Mammoth @ Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth
Lyuba @ Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyuba
Woolly mammoth @ Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_mammoth
THE YUKAGIR MAMMOTH: BRIEF HISTORY, 14C DATES,INDIVIDUAL AGE, GENDER, SIZE, PHYSICALAND ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS AND STORAGE
http://www.geo.auth.gr/12icbs/proceedings/mol_et_al.pdf
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/majesty_2
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/monstrous_2
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/tusk?q=tusk+
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/specimen?q=specimen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/intact?q=intact+
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/excavate?q=excavation
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