According to the Agence France-Presse ( AFP ), Yana’s examiners described the roughly four-foot-tall calf as smelling like a “mixture of fermented earth and flesh” after spending tens of thousands of ...

Scientists have unveiled the oldest woolly mammoth specimen ever discovered in North America as part of a major DNA study spanning a million years of mammoth evolution.

A baby mammoth nicknamed "Yana" was dissected by Russian scientists at North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk on March 27, pictures show.

A major breakthrough in paleontology has shifted our understanding of the woolly mammoth’s presence in North America. A ...

Five of those were found in Russia and the remaining one was found ... We were all surprised by the exceptional preservation of the mammoth.' WOOLLY MAMMOTHS EXPLAINED: THESE GIANT MAMMALS ROAMED ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known woolly mammoth fossil in North America — a 216,000-year-old tooth unearthed along ...

Before this discovery, only six mammoth carcasses had been found in the world -- five in Russia and one in Canada, the university said. Yakutia is a remote region bordering the Arctic Ocean.