north of Fairbanks, Alaska, in July 1979. The mummy was noticed by a gold miner who named the mummy Blue Babe – "Babe" for Paul Bunyan's mythical giant ox, permanently turned blue when he was buried to the horns in a blizzard (Blue Babe's own bluish cast was caused by a coating of vivianite, a blue iron phosphate covering much of the specimen). Blue Babe is also frequently referenced when talking about scientists eating their own specimens: the research team that was preparing it for permanent display in the University of Alaska Museum removed a portion of the mummy's neck, stewed it, and dined on it to celebrate the accomplishment. In 2011, a 9,300-year-old mummy was found at Yukagir in Siberia. In 2016, a frozen tail was discovered in the north of the Republic of Sakha in Russia. The exact age was not clear, but tests showed it was not younger than 8,000 years old. A team of Russian and South Korean scientists proposed extracting DNA from the specimen and cloning it in the future. References Bison Prehistoric bovids Holocene extinctions Prehistoric even-toed ungulates Prehistoric mammals of North America Quaternary mammals of Asia Pleistocene mammals of Europe Pleistocene mammals of Asia Pleistocene mammals of North America Mammals described in 1827 Fossil taxa described in 1827 Pleistocene first appearances Taxa named by Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus