The baby mammoth, nicknamed "Dima" will be the centrepiece of an exhibition entitled Ice Age. Though Dima will be on display from April 2 until June 8, Ice Age will run until November 17. The exhibition features skeletons of other animals fromm the period as well as panoramas.
Hungary's Environment Minister, Gábor Fodor, who helped unpack Dima, said the exhibition makes a statement about the importance of climate change. When Dima lived, the average temperature was just 5 degrees Celsius lower than today, which shows even small changes in temperature can result in big changes in climate, he said.
The baby mammoth stands about one metre high and was 7 to 8 months old when it died, about 40,000 years ago. The carcass was recovered from the permafrost on a tributary of the Kolyma River in northeast Siberia in 1977.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / Photo: Péter Kollányi (MTI)
