Scientists Show Baby Mammoth Preserved for 50,000 Years in Siberia — VOA Learning English
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Researchers in Russia's Siberia area are showing the public what they say are the 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth.
Melting permafrost led to the animal’s discovery. They are calling it the best-preserved mammoth body ever found.
Named Yana by the scientists, the female mammoth weighs more than 100 kilograms and is 120 centimeters tall.
Scientists believe that Yana was one year old when she died. Her remains are among several mammoth carcasses that have been recovered.
Yana was found among the melting permafrost at Batagaika crater in the far-eastern Russian area of Yakutia. Known as the “gateway to the underworld,” scientists have found remains of other ancient animals there,…
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