PUY-EN VELAY, FRANCE - A baby woolly mammoth, one of the oldest
intact mammoths every found, is now on display in a French
museum. Baby Khroma, as the mammoth has been named, had spent
tens of thousands of years under the Siberian frost and now is
taking a summer break in the southeast of France. Baby Khroma is
80-centimeter-high, 1.6-meter-long (1-foot-high, 5-foot-long)
prehistoric mammal may be the oldest baby mammoth ever
discovered. Carbon dating methods failed to determine its age,
suggesting it is more than 50,000 years old, said French
researchers and Sergei Gorbunov, project coordinator for the
Geneva-based International Mammoth Committee. Russian news
reports have said it is 32,000 years old. The mammoth is Khroma
is on display at the Musee Crozatier in Puy-en-Velay in a
special cryogenic chamber kept at -18 degrees C (-0.40
Fahrenheit). Such mammoths offer scientists the opportunity to
do analysis that they cannot carry out on skeletons, such as
studying stomach contents and fur. Putting them on di