As permafrost melts, scientists are able to discover prehistoric animals such as mammoths like this one, bison,and dogs. The mammoth weighs 240 pounds, according to Reuters. The mammoth is one of seven mammoth carcasses found worldwide.

The 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia's Siberia region who call it the best-preserved mammoth body ever found.

A baby mammoth that lay almost perfectly preserved for 50,000 years in the now-melting permafrost of eastern Siberia has been unveiled by a team of scientists.