'Well-preserved' baby mammoth dating back to Ice Age dissected by scientists: photos

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Stunning pictures amusement a pistillate baby mammoth, dating backmost implicit 130,000 years, precocious being dissected by Russian scientists.

The mammoth, which has been nicknamed "Yana," was dissected astatine the North-Eastern Federal University successful Yakutsk, Russia, connected March 27. The babe mammoth had been preserved successful permafrost until she was dug up successful the acold Russian state of Yakutia past year.

Pictures of the necropsy amusement a squad of scientists huddled astir the 397-pound animal, which intimately resembles a modern babe elephant. The creature's rima was unfastened and her trunk was curled arsenic scientists opened up her skin.

Scientists initially believed that Yana lived 50,000 years ago, but that estimation was updated to implicit 130,000 years aft scientists analyzed the permafrost furniture wherever she was found.

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A unrecorded broadcast of scientists performing a necropsy connected the 50,000-year-old babe mammoth nicknamed "Yana" is seen connected a surface astatine the North-Eastern Federal University successful Yakutsk connected March 27, 2025. (STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)

Maxim Cherpasov, caput of the Lazarev Mammoth Museum Laboratory, told Reuters past twelvemonth that the mammoth was conscionable implicit a twelvemonth aged erstwhile she died. The corpse was already partially eaten by predators erstwhile she was discovered.

"As a rule, the portion that thaws retired first, particularly the trunk, is often eaten by modern predators oregon birds," Cherpasov told Reuters.

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Scientists execute a necropsy connected the 50,000-year-old babe mammoth nicknamed "Yana" astatine the North-Eastern Federal University successful Yakutsk connected March 27, 2025. (STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)

"Here, for example, adjacent though the forelimbs person already been eaten, the caput is remarkably well-preserved."

Though the find of a well-preserved mammoth is exceedingly rare, it is not unheard of for different mammoth remains to beryllium discovered. In June 2024, a fisherman recovered a mammoth bone connected the banks of the Raba River successful Książnice, adjacent Gdów, Poland.

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Scientists execute a necropsy connected the 50,000-year-old babe mammoth nicknamed "Yana" astatine the North-Eastern Federal University successful Yakutsk connected March 27, 2025. (STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)

In August of the aforesaid year, a fossil collector discovered a information of a Columbian mammoth tusk successful an embankment successful Madison County, Mississippi.

Reuters contributed to this report.