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Superb photos show a baby mammoth, more than 130,000 years old, recently dissected by Russian scientists.
The mammoth, which was nicknamed “Yana”, was dissected at the Federal University of the northeast of Yakutsk, Russia, on March 27. The baby mammoth had been kept in Permafrost until it was dug in the cold Russian province of Yakutia last year.
Photos of the autopsy show a team of scientists huddled around the animal of 397 pounds, which is closely like a modern modern elephant. The creature's mouth was open and its trunk was completed while scientists opened its skin.
Scientists initially believed that Yana lived 50,000 years ago, but this estimate was updated at more than 130,000 years after scientists analyzed the Pergélisol layer where it was found.
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A live scientists' program making a gigantic 50,000-year-old baby necropsy nicknamed “Yana” is seen on a screen at the Federal University of Northeast Yakutsk on March 27, 2025. (Stringer / AFP via Getty Images)
Maxim Cherpasov, head of the Mammoth Museum Lazarev laboratory, told Reuters last year that the mammoth had a little over a year at his death. The corpse was already partially eaten by predators when it was discovered.
“As a general rule, the part that thaws first, in particular the trunk, is often consumed by modern predators or birds,” Cherpasov told Reuters.
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Scientists carry out a gigantic baby necropsia aged 50,000 nicknamed “Yana” at the Federal University of the Northeast Yakutsk on March 27, 2025. (Stringer / AFP via Getty Images)
“Here, for example, even if the previous members have already been eaten, the head is remarkably well preserved.”
Although the discovery of a well -preserved mammoth is extremely rare, it is not unknown for other mammoths to discover. In June 2024, a fisherman found a gigantic bone on the banks of the Raba river in Ksiąnice, near Gdów, in Poland.
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Scientists carry out a gigantic baby necropsia aged 50,000 nicknamed “Yana” at the Federal University of the Northeast Yakutsk on March 27, 2025. (Stringer / AFP via Getty Images)
In August of the same year, a fossil collector discovered part of a defense of Colombian mammoth in an embankment in the county of Madison, Mississippi.
Reuters contributed to this report.
