Yakutsk, Russia, April 4, 2025 (AFP) - Yana, a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth, goes under the scalpel

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2025-04-04

Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia's far east looked like pathologists carrying out a post-mortem. But the body they were dissecting is a baby mammoth who died around 130,000 years ago. Discovered last year, the calf -- nicknamed Yana, for the river basin where she was found -- is in a remarkable state of preservation, giving scientists a glimpse into the past and, potentially, the future as cl......

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