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 ...

Russian scientists have cut open and examined a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth preserved in Siberian permafrost ... or permanently frozen earth, for millennia until climate change thawed that ...

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 in Siberia ... mammoth carcass in the world. Scientists have said that the remarkable state of preservation is only possible because the permafrost, or permanently frozen earth, acts ...

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 fate of the woolly mammoth is a story shaped by survival ... off the coast of Siberia. Cut off by rising sea levels ...

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.

The young mammoth was frozen in time because she was encased in permafrost in the Sakha region in Siberia for thousands of years. She measures nearly four feet at the shoulder and about 6.5 feet ...

As that frozen ground thaws ... have played a major role in recovering some of the best-preserved mammoth remains from Siberian permafrost. These specimens include intact soft tissue and hair ...