Exhibition: Mammoths - Ice Age Giants, Natural History Museum

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Lyuba led a short life. But she has become endlessly significant.

At around 35 days, the infant mammoth tumbled into soft clay. Her trunk and oesophagus were clogged with mud and she suffocated.

Spiral Notebook: Nothing lasts forever

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By Giles Broadbent

I met a man the other day who made history. Or at least extended its boundaries.

Dr Nick Ashton of the British Museum was one of the team who identified small indentations in slab of sedimentary rock as footprints and in doing so set a new marker on this country's ancient history.

How a secret trapped in the rock for a million years was revealed and gone within a fortnight

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"Diligence is the mother of good luck." So says the 16th century proverb its truth would be met with a nod of recognition for a team of scientists who discovered the Happisburgh footprints.