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Updated Sunday, December 30, 2007 0:00 am TWN, AP

37,000-year-old mammoth carcass arrives in Japan

TOKYO -- The frozen carcass of a 37,000-year-old baby mammoth unearthed this summer in Siberia arrived in Japan on Saturday for tests that researchers hope will shed new light on the internal structure of the ancient beasts, an official said.

The 1.2 meter (4-foot) gray-and-brown carcass arrived at Tokyo International Airport on Saturday afternoon, said Mitsuyoshi Uno, an official with the joint Russo-Japanese mammoth-study project that is overseeing the research.

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