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

Yakutsk, Russia (AFP) April 4, 2025

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 scientist