
Waking the Baby Mammoth,Scientists perform microsurgery on Lyuba, a baby mammoth discovered on the bank of a remote Siberian river in May 2007.

Waking the Baby Mammoth,Daniel Fisher is an Expedition Scientist from the Museum of Paleontology and Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Michigan.

Waking the Baby Mammoth,Nenets woman (Lyuba Khudi, wife Yuri Khudi, who reported the baby mammoth), holds a group of reindeer in place.

Waking the Baby Mammoth,Florent Herry, Bernard Buigues, Daniel Fisher, Yuri Khudi, and Kirill Seretetto during microsurgery on Lyuba, a baby mammoth discovered on the bank of a remote Siberian river in May 2007.

Waking the Baby Mammoth,Yuri Khudi, Kirill Seretetto, Daniel Fisher, and Bernard Buigues toast in a chum interior.

Waking the Baby Mammoth,Close-up of a reindeer with antlers (in "velvet") just regrowing for a new year.

Waking the Baby Mammoth,The Nenets in Yamal, Siberia are nomads who have survived by fishing and breeding reindeer for hundreds of years.

Waking the Baby Mammoth,About once a week, a nomadic Nenets family harnesses some of their reindeer to sleds and moves their camp farther along on their seasonal migration.

Waking the Baby Mammoth,Daniel Fisher, Bernard Buigues, Naoki Suzuki and Yuri Khudy during a microsurgery on Lyuba, a baby mammoth discovered on the bank of a remote Siberian river.