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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">May 18, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Meet 40,000-year-old baby mammoth Lyuba
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<strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">at the Royal BC Museum
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">VICTORIA, BC
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">– A 40,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth, the best-preserved specimen in existence, will take centre stage when the
<i>Mammoths: Giants of the Ice Age</i> feature exhibition opens June 3 at the Royal BC Museum.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Lyuba (pronounced Lee-OO-bah) is the world’s most complete mammoth. Her remarkable discovery in the frozen
soil of the Arctic in 2007 by a Siberian reindeer herder made immediate international headlines.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">This will be the first opportunity to the see the baby mammoth in Canada. Lyuba is on loan from the Shemanovskiy
Yamal-Nenets District Museum and Exhibition Complex in northern Siberia, Russia.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">“We are honoured that the Shemanovsky Museum-Exhibition Complex is loaning Lyuba to the Royal BC Museum,”
CEO Jack Lohman says. “Seeing this unbelievable treasure in person will allow British Columbians, and our visitors to discover how science has brought this baby mammoth’s story to life. This is an example of our continued collaboration with cultural institutions
across the globe to further interest in science, culture and history.”<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Scientists were able to retrace Lyuba’s short life and determine that she was about 30 days old when she
suffocated after being trapped in mud along the banks of a river. Samples of Lyuba’s soft tissue and tusks suggest she was healthy at the time of her death.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">A time-lapse showing the installation of Lyuba will be featured on the Royal BC Museum’s YouTube channel
(</span></strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/RoyalBCMuseum"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">www.youtube.com/user/RoyalBCMuseum</span></a><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">)
by May 31st. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Mammoths: Giants of the Ice Age</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">
is presented with lead marketing partner Tourism Victoria. The exhibition is in partnership with The Field Museum.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">1. Backgrounder Attached below - Lyuba<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><a name="OLE_LINK12"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">About the Royal BC Museum<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<p class="xbodytext" style="margin-top:.1pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">The Royal BC Museum explores the province’s human history and natural history, advances new knowledge and understanding of
BC, and provides a dynamic forum for discussion and a place for reflection. The museum and archives celebrate culture and history, telling the stories of BC in ways that enlighten, stimulate and inspire. Looking to the future, the Royal BC Museum will be a
refreshed, modern museum, extending its reach far beyond Victoria as a world-class cultural venue and repository of digital treasures.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Std 55","sans-serif";color:#4F8636">BACKGROUNDER - LYUBA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Std 55","sans-serif"">First time in Canada for 40,000-year-old preserved baby mammoth<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Std 55","sans-serif"">In 2007, a Siberian reindeer herder and two of his sons made a fantastic discovery – an intact baby woolly mammoth, preserved in the frozen soil of the Arctic for
some 40,000 years. The baby mammoth was named Lyuba (pronounced Lee-OO-bah) after the herder’s wife.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Std 55","sans-serif"">Lyuba’s discovery made headlines around the world. The
<i>Mammoths: Giants of the Ice Age</i> exhibition at the Royal BC Museum in Victoria marks the first time people will be able to see the baby mammoth in Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Std 55","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Std 55","sans-serif"">Lyuba is on loan from the Shemanovskiy Yamal-Nenets District Museum and Exhibition Complex in northern Siberia, Russia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Std 55","sans-serif"">Lyuba is preserved in remarkable condition, giving researchers rare insights into the lives and habits of her extinct species. After Lyuba was found, an international
team of Russian, French, Japanese and American scientists performed DNA analysis, an autopsy, and used computerized X-ray tomography and microsampling techniques to explore her anatomy and physiology.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Std 55","sans-serif"">Previously, the researchers had worked together for more than a decade examining fossils, tusks, and other frozen mammoth carcasses found in Siberia. But Lyuba
was by far the best-preserved specimen they had ever seen. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Std 55","sans-serif"">The scientists retraced Lyuba’s short life and determined that she was only about 30 days old when she died of suffocation after being trapped in mud along the
banks of a river. While she struggled to free herself, her trunk filled with silt and her body was quickly covered by sediment. Samples of Lyuba’s soft tissue and tusks suggest she was healthy at the time of her death.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Std 55","sans-serif"">One of the most puzzling questions about Lyuba was how she remained so well preserved, even though she lay exposed almost a year before discovery. Why didn’t her
flesh rot during this last year? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Std 55","sans-serif"">The scientific team’s American member, Daniel Fisher, PhD, a University of Michigan paleontologist and guest curator at The Field Museum in Chicago, provided the
answer based upon his own research. Dr. Fisher found that Lyuba had been preserved by lactic-acid-producing bacteria that colonized her body after death. This microbial process “pickled” her soft tissues and worked, along with freezing, to keep Lyuba’s carcass
– approximately 110 pounds and 45 inches long – in excellent condition. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Std 55","sans-serif"">To prepare Lyuba for the
<i>Mammoths: Giants of the Ice Age</i> exhibition at the Royal BC Museum, Russian scientists have preserved her body using formalin, a chemical that will make her tissue less susceptible to decay and allow Lyuba to be displayed without refrigeration.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Std 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Lyuba’s visit is not the Royal BC Museum’s first encounter with Russia. The Museum and Archives has a history
of travelling to Russia and engaging with Russian institutions. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Std 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Std 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Royal BC Museum Curators Dr. Richard Hebda and Dr. Ken Marr, in collaboration with Tomsk State University,
collected plants and plant DNA samples from the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia in 2010 and in the Magadan region of far eastern Russia in 2011, to help trace the Ice Age history of BC alpine plants.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Std 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">In 2014, a researcher at the A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology of the Far Eastern Branch of the
Russian Academy of Sciences travelled to the Royal BC Museum to examine marine clams in our Invertebrates collection.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Std 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Coinciding with the exhibition, the Royal BC Museum will unveil a major update to its Natural History gallery,
home of the iconic Woolly Mammoth. Hands-on, interactive displays will present the latest scientific and archaeological discoveries to reveal the most complete understanding to date of life in British Columbia during the Ice Age.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Std 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Mammoths: Giants of the Ice Age</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Std 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">
opens June 3 and runs until Dec. 31, 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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