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

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Stunning pictures show a femalebaby mammoth,dating back over 130,000 years, recently being dissected by Russian scientists.

The mammoth, which has been nicknamed “Yana,” was dissected at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, Russia, on March 27.The baby mammoth had been preserved in permafrost until she was dug up in the cold Russian province of Yakutia last year.

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Pictures of the necropsy show a team of scientists huddled around the 397-pound animal, which closely resembles a modern baby elephant.The creature’s mouth was open, and her trunk was curled as scientists opened up her skin.

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Scientists initially believed that Yana lived 50,000 years ago, but that estimate was updated to over 130,000 years after scientists analyzed the permafrost layer where she was found.

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A live broadcast of scientists performing a necropsy on the 50,000-year-old baby mammoth nicknamed “Yana” is seen on a screen at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk on March 27, 2025.(STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)

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Maxim Cherpasov, head of the Lazarev Mammoth Museum Laboratory, told Reuters last year that the mammoth was just over a year old when she died.The corpse was already partially eaten by predators when she was discovered.

“As a rule, the part that thaws out first, especially the trunk, is often eaten by modern predators or birds,” Cherpasov told Reuters.

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Scientists perform a necropsy on the 50,000-year-old baby mammoth nicknamed “Yana” at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk on March 27, 2025.(STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)

“Here, for example, even though the forelimbs have already been eaten, the head is remarkably well-preserved.”

Though the discovery of a well-preserved mammoth is exceedingly rare, it is not unheard of for other mammoth remains to be discovered.In June 2024, a fisherman found amammoth boneon the banks of the Raba River in Książnice, near Gdów, Poland.

Scientists perform a necropsy on the 50,000-year-old baby mammoth nicknamed “Yana” at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk on March 27, 2025.(STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)

In August of the same year, a fossil collector discovered a portion of aColumbian mammoth tuskin an embankment in Madison County, Mississippi.

Reuters contributed to this report.