Yana, a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth, goes under the scalpel

130,000-year-old baby mammoth goes under scalpel

YAKUTSK — Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia's far east looked like pathologists carrying out a post-mortem.

Yana, a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth, goes under the scalpel

Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia's far east looked like pathologists carrying out a post-mortem.

The specimen, known as Jana, may have lived 100,000 years ago. Its head and soft tissues were intact, and its stomach was full of food debris.

In a laboratory in the Russian Far East, words like "incision" or "sampling" and the gestures of scientists would have their place during an autopsy. But the corpse they are examining...

Inside a laboratory in Russia's Far East, scientists are busy dissecting the 130,000-year-old carcass of a mammoth found last year in a remarkably well-preserved state. Ianna's skin, still sporting some hair, has retained its gray-brown color, and the animal's wrinkled torso is curved and pointed toward its mouth. The mammoth's eye sockets are clearly recognizable, and its legs closely resemble those of its elephant relative. "This dissection is…

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Deep in a laboratory in Russia’s far east, scientists delicately made incisions, carefully extracting samples from a remarkably well-preserved baby mammoth. The scene resembled a forensic post-mortem, but the subject under examination was an ancient creature that roamed the Earth approximately 130,000 years ago. Nicknamed Yana, after the river basin where she was discovered last year, this mammoth calf is offering scientists an unprecedented opp…