A baby mammoth that lay almost perfectly preserved for 50,000 years in the now-melting permafrost of eastern Siberia has been unveiled by a team of scientists. The carcass of the baby mammoth, dubbed “Yana” after the Yana River basin where it was found in eastern Siberia, Russia, was unveiled by researchers on Monday. It was only the seventh baby mammoth carcass discovered globally — six in Russia and one in Canada. The mammoth is 4 feet tall, weighs about 400 pounds and is less than 6.6 feet long, according to the press release. Researchers Gavril Novgorodov and Erel Struchkov pose next to the remains of a baby mammoth discovered in June.

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Persons: “, ”, Anatoly Nikolaev, “ Yana, Yana ”, Maxim Cheprasov, Yana, Cheprasov, Gavril Novgorodov, Erel Organizations: Lazarev Mammoth Museum, Eastern Federal University, Lazarev Mammoth Museum Laboratory, Russian Federation Locations: Siberia, Yakutsk, Russia, Canada, Bataga, Batagaika, Russian