Mystery Solved Paleontology

Baby mammoths died traumatic deaths

CT scans reveal mud in windpipe and lungs

UNTIMELY DEMISE  This well-preserved woolly mammoth baby, nicknamed Lyuba, probably suffocated after sucking mud into her lungs, CT scans suggest.

Francis Latreille

By Meghan Rosen

- More than 2 years ago

More than 45,000 years ago in the Siberian Arctic, a baby woolly mammoth, now known as Khroma, may have plunged to her death from a riverbank into a pit of quicksand.