The 50,000-year-old female, nicknamed Yana, is one of only seven whole remains discovered in world

Summary

Russian scientists have unveiled the exceptionally well-preserved remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth, named Yana, discovered in Yakutia’s permafrost this summer.

Weighing 180kg and measuring 120cm tall, it is considered the world’s best-preserved mammoth carcass and one of only seven complete remains ever found.

Displayed at North-Eastern Federal University, researchers noted its remarkable condition and plan to study its exact age, estimated at just over one year.

Yakutia’s permafrost, known for preserving prehistoric animals, has also yielded remains of a horse, bison, and lemming.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    I remember the horse.

    All this permafrost thawing isn’t a good thing, except for Russia, they get more usable land. But for everyone else it’s a bigger warning sign than glacial melt.

    • pgetsos@fedia.io
      5·
      1 day ago

      I doubt that Russia will get much usable land, at least for quite a while. The melted permafrost leaves behind muddy landscapes that results in the destruction of the floral and the animals that eat those plants, and also results in more droughts

      • ComradeSharkfuckerEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Humans can make the least arable land farmable when they need to. Hopefully the people of Russia never need to but they will, we all will.

  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
    1·
    1 day ago

    Why do they always find these in Russia and not other parts of the arctic? I mean Russia is big but they seem to find these there every few years, and I can’t think of a single example from another country.

    • its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      1 day ago

      Siberia is entirely in Russia. There aren’t many countries in the artic. North America was torn up by glaciers, Greenland and Iceland are hotspots, any of the European countries are very mountainous. Siberia is mostly permafrost and has been for a long while. Added to that, Russia has the most landmass in the artic circle.