The exceptional discovery of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth, named Yana, in Siberia’s melting permafrost has captivated scientists. Weighing over 100 kilograms, Yana is considered the best-preserved ...

MOSCOW, Russia — The remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost in Russia’s Siberia have been ...

The female mammoth, nicknamed “Yana” after the river basin where she was discovered, was found in the now-melting permafrost at the Batagaika crater in eastern Siberia. Yana weighs more than ...

Local residents constructed stretchers from improvised materials to lift the mammoth calf, preserved it in a glacier, and contacted scientists for further study.

Discovered near the Yana River, in Yakutia, this small female mammoth, nicknamed Yana, lived approximately 50,000 years ago. The permafrost, a permanently frozen layer of soil, preserved her body ...

Russian scientists presented the carcass of a baby mammoth, whose incredibly well-preserved remains were found in the ...

The findings are unique because the mammoth's head and trunk survived all these years. The trunk typically thaws first and is ...

The female mammoth weighs more than 220 pounds and is 47 inches tall. Her remains are one of seven mammoth carcasses ...

The mammoth has been named "Yana" in honor of the Yana River that flows through the Verkhoyansk district where the discovery was made. Maxim Cheprasov, the head of the Mammoth Museum at NEFU ...

MOSCOW, Russia — The remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost in Russia’s Siberia have been unveiled to the public. Nicknamed Yana, the female mammoth weighs ...