Anyone travelling for a stay at the Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel Chicago next year should not miss out on seeing another very special visitor to the city.

Lyuba, a 40,000-year-old, perfectly preserved woolly mammoth, is to travel to Chicago's Field Museum to form part of a special exhibition on the species and its relatives between March 5th and September 6th.

It will be the first time that such an immaculate specimen has been housed in a US museum and marks the start of a country-wide tour for the exhibition.

Lyuba is believed to have been only a month old when she died from suffocation after falling into a pit or ditch in Siberia. She was trapped in permafrost under perfect conditions for preservation and was so intact when she was found three years ago that scientists even found traces of milk in her stomach.

Lead curator Daniel Fisher said: "The exhibition as a whole demonstrates how close we can come to knowing what these animals were like."

Woolly mammoths lived 135,000 to 11,000 years ago and were the last species to become extinct.

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