Researchers have performed a necropsy on a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth preserved in the Siberian permafrost.

According to the Agence France-Presse ( AFP ), Yana’s examiners described the roughly four-foot-tall calf as smelling like a ...

A 50,000-year-old baby mammoth pulled from melting permafrost ... the ground is permanently frozen. But bit by bit, the mile-deep permafrost is melting, causing the thawing ground to sink and ...

Scientists have unearthed a baby mammoth more than 50,000 years old from the frozen ground in a remote region of Siberia. Scientists in Siberia are carrying out tests after discovering the remains ...

The creature was first revealed to the public in December 2024, and was described as the best-preserved mammoth found ... had been encased in Siberian permafrost – long-frozen earth – that ...

Scientists have performed a necropsy on a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth discovered in Siberia. The female mammoth ... Usually, when an animal emerges from the frozen ground and starts to thaw ...

But the body they were dissecting was a baby mammoth who died around 130,000 ... the soil in this region of Siberia that is frozen year-round and acts like a gigantic freezer, preserving the ...

The dung was packed within the intestine of this frozen woolly mammoth. It is known as the Yukagir mammoth for the Siberian village near where it was found in 2002. The mammoth's permafrost tomb ...

MOSCOW (AFP): Russian scientists on Monday showed off the remarkably well preserved remains of a baby mammoth found in the permafrost-covered region of Yakutia. The 50,000-year-old female mammoth ...

Love Dalén, professor of evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University, hold a mammoth tusk while doing fieldwork in Siberia. Dalén's lab analyzed the mitchondrial DNA from mammoth remains that ...

This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Tusk and Sunset A mammoth’s tusk spikes the Siberian sky on Bolshoy Lyakhovskiy Island. Tusks that are discovered with ...

A BABY mammoth has gone under the knife ... Yana had been encased in Siberian permafrost – long-frozen earth – that had recently thawed. This exposed the creature's body, but it was ...