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.

‘Mammothpox’ is the name of a fictional virus that the World Health Organization (WHO) used to test how prepared 15 countries ...

The creature was first revealed to the public in December 2024, and was described as the best-preserved mammoth found to date ... Like with humans and their baby teeth, these milk tusks would ...

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

But the body they were dissecting was a baby mammoth who died around 130,000 years ago ... the soil in this region of Siberia that is frozen year-round and acts like a gigantic freezer, preserving the ...

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

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

The researchers and filmmakers had no idea they were looking at ‘mammothpox’ when they all suddenly fell ill. The novel virus was wriggling around a well-preserved wool mammoth specimen from ...

Russian scientists have cut open and examined a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth preserved in Siberian ... or permanently frozen earth, for millennia until climate change thawed that permafrost ...