Lyuba, world's most complete woolly mammoth, to go on display in London

The world's most complete mammoth will go on show at London’s Natural History Museum at the end of this week, the Daily Mail reported.

Lyuba the baby mammoth measures 33inches (85cm) tall and 51 inches (130cm) long – a little larger than a dog.

She was discovered in Siberia, Russia in May 2007 by reindeer herder Yuri Khudi and his sons who were searching for wood along the Yuribei River some 42,000 years after the one-month-old mammoth died.

Lyuba is named after Yuri's wife and her name means love in Russian.

Her body was so well preserved because it was buried in wet clay and mud, which froze, preventing oxygen from decomposing her remains.

Lyuba is one of a number of the animals to have been found close to the north-west Siberian river in recent years.

Members of the public will be able to see her pristinely preserved body when it forms the centrepiece of an exhibition called Mammoths: Ice Age Giant, which opens on 23 May. It will run until 7 September.

The exhibition is the first opportunity for people to see the baby mammoth in Europe and it will also include realistic life-sized models and skeletons of mammoths and their relatives. Real tusks and teeth from the woolly giants will also go on show.

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