After travelling a week on the road, Lyuba, 42,000-year-old baby mammoth got a warm welcome at its new home, the Natural History Museum. It will become part of the Mammoths: Ice Age Giants exhibition, this Friday.

Museum mammoth expert Prof. Adrian Lister said the 130cm tall and 50 kg weighing baby mammoth came in a specially designed crate. He helped unpacking it and as he opened the crate, he affirmed, 'she is beautiful'. For him, it was quite an emotional experience to see a baby mammoth from the Ice Age.

Lyuba is on loan from the Shemanovsky Museum in the Arctic Circle. Yuri Khudi, a reindeer herder, found the baby mammoth in Siberia in 2007. Khudi found the baby mammoth along with his son at the time when they were looking out for wood on the frozen Yuribei River's bank.

It is considered that she was one month old when she died. Her body is so well preserved because she was buried in wet clay and mud and then it froze. One of the other very surprising revelation is remnants of her mother's milk are still present in her stomach.

During her stay in the museum, scientists would examine her remains to know anything more on what made the giant beasts to become extinct. Scientists are eyeing on two options, climate change and habitat destruction.

As per scientists, Lyuba is the most preserved mammoth ever found. "To be eyeball to eyeball with a creature from the Ice Age which is so perfectly preserved and lifelike, looking like she is lying down and might walk away at any minute", affirmed Lister.