That is sooo cool. Preserved for 37,000 years? Amazing!

Mmm, 37k year old mammoth veal

Sweet! Paleogenomics rule!

that's impossible, the baby jesus tells us that the earth is 6000 years old.

And also, you see that large one in the diarama they show near the end... that's a friggen real stuffed adult Mammoth.

Freaks me out that they actually have a stuffed animal that's tens of thousands of years old. (the stuffing of it was done recently, not that long ago) Makes me wish there was a T-Rex or Brontosaurus frozen in permafrost somewhere than can be found... imagine actually finding a dinosaur with skin, organs etc... it'd be incredible.

In reply to this comment by spoco2:
And also, you see that large one in the diarama they show near the end... that's a friggen real stuffed adult Mammoth.

Makes me wish there was a T-Rex or Brontosaurus frozen in permafrost somewhere than can be found... imagine actually finding a dinosaur with skin, organs etc... it'd be incredible.

There are actually quite a few dino fossils that have preserved tissue other than bone. There are some at the AMNH that have skin and partial internal organs intact; and I believe the La Brea tarpits in LA are home to some extremely well preserved tissues as well.

[edit]: Seems I was wrong. La Brea houses fossils only as old as OIS 2 (the last ice age--about 11,000 years ago). The articles about other preserved dino tissues can be found here:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071203-dino-mummy.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/03/0324_050324_trexsofttissue.html

Thanks to spoco for the correction and the second link.

^In those cases the tissue is mineralized, but its still an amazing glimpse into the soft tissue anatomy of an animal that lived over 65 million years ago.

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