130,000-year-old mammoth calf smells like 'fermented earth and flesh,' necropsy reveals

Dissection of 130,000-Year-Old Baby Mammoth Reveals Glimpse Into Lost World

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, the baby mammoth, goes under the scalpel

Stunning images show a female woolly mammoth baby that is over 130,000 years old, recently dissected by Russian scientists.

Necropsy on 400lb baby mammoth frozen for 130k years reveals its SMELL

A BABY mammoth has gone under the knife – after being preserved in Siberian permafrost for 130,000 years. Russian scientists carried out a necropsy on the long-dead mammoth calf, nicknamed Yana. AFPScientists have performed an autopsy on a long-dead mammoth[/caption] AFPThe mammoth is believed to have lived and died around 130,000 years ago[/caption] AFPScientists have nicknamed the mammoth ‘Yana’[/caption] The creature was first revealed to the…

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

Warning: This article contains graphic pictures. Reader discretion is advised.Stunning pictures show a female baby 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 la…

Dissected mammoth calf smells like 'fermented earth and flesh'

A woolly mammoth calf discovered in 2024 underwent its first detailed postmortem analysis by researchers from Russia’s Institute of Experimental Medicine in Saint Petersburg. 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 opportunity to conduct a necropsy on Yana will likely yield a trove of new inform…