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Scientists perform a necropsy on the 50,000-year-old baby mammoth nicknamed “Yana” at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk on March 27, 2025. The carcass, which was dug up past summer near the Batagaika research station in the permafrost-covered region of Yakutia, weighs 180 kilograms (397 pounds) and is 120 centimetres (four feet) tall and 200 centimetres long. Yana's “geological age”, meaning the period when she lived, was first estimated at 50,000 years, but later updated to “more than 130,000 years” following analysis of the permafrost layer where she was found, said Maxim Cheprasov, director of The Mammoth Museum at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)
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