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

Archaeologists have discovered large quantities of mammoth bones and stone tools from the Ice Age in Lower Austria. By studying the remains, they hope to better understand the movements of mammoths and Paleolithic hunting techniques.

Yakutsk, Russia. In a laboratory in the Russian Far East, a group of scientists performed a necropsy on the remains of Yana, a 130,000-year-old mammoth calf, found last year in perfect conservation condition. This necropsy “gives us the opportunity to study the past of our planet,” said enthusiastically Artemi Goncharov, head of the laboratory of functional genomics and proteomics of microorganisms of the Institute of Experimental Medicine of St…

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.

Scientists use elephant DNA to bring back the woolly mammoth

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