A baby mammoth nicknamed "Yana" was dissected by Russian scientists at North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk on March ...

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.

Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia's far east looked like pathologists ...

Researchers have performed a necropsy on a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth preserved in the Siberian permafrost.

In April, results of a CT scan of the baby mammoth's head will help to determine more accurately the animal's biological age. Mammoths are aged by the sequence of changes and the degree of tooth ...

Rising temperatures helped seal the mammoths’ fate near the end of the last ice age by shrinking ... long mammoth tusk carved with an intricate bacchanalian scene selling for $1.1 million.

Scientists perform a necropsy on the baby ... 1.2 metres (nearly four feet) at the shoulder and two metres long, and weighing 180 kilogrammes (nearly 400 pounds), Yana could be the best-preserved ...

But the body they were dissecting is a baby mammoth who died around ... director of the Mammoth Museum. As for her age at death, "it's already clear that she is over a year old because her milk ...

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.