Russian scientists have cut open and examined a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth preserved in Siberian permafrost. The yearling mammoth, nicknamed "Yana," was first unveiled in December 2024. The ...

A baby mammoth nicknamed "Yana" was dissected by Russian scientists at North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk on March ...

After spending around 130,000 years buried in Siberian permafrost, Yana (named after the river basin in which she was found) is one of the most well-preserved mammoth specimens ever found.

Yana was first estimated to have died around 50,000 years ago, but is now dated at "more than 130,000 years" following analysis of the permafrost layer where she lay, said Maxim Cheprasov, director of ...

The mammoth species that Yana belonged to went ... Yana had been encased in Siberian permafrost – long-frozen earth – that had recently thawed. This exposed the creature's body, but it was ...

Permafrost thawing could even release ancient ... These viruses were found in a clump of frozen mammoth wool and are able to infect both human and mouse cells. 'Wolf' virus - Pacmanvirus ...

but is now dated at "more than 130,000 years" following analysis of the permafrost layer where she lay, said Maxim Cheprasov, director of the Mammoth Museum. As for her age at death, "it's already ...