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The impressive images show a gigantic woman, who dates back to more than 130,000 years, recently being dissected by Russian scientists.
The mammoth, which has been nicknamed “Yana”, was dissected at the Federal University of the Northeast of Yakutsk, Russia, March 27.
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The images of the autopsy show a team of curly scientists around the animal of 397 pounds, which looks a lot like a modern baby elephant.
The creature’s mouth was open, and his trunk was curly when scientists opened their skin.
The initial scientists believed that Yana lived 50,000 years ago, but that estimate was updated about 130,000 years after the scientists analyzed the permafrost layer where they found it.
Maxim Cherpasov, chief of the Mammoth Museum Lázarev Museum, told Reuters last year that the mammoth was approximately one year when he died.
The body was already partial by predators when it was discovered.
“As a general rule, the part that is defrosted first, as special the trunk, is modern predators or birds,” Cherpasov told Reuters.
“Here, for example, just although troutimbs already eat the legs, the head is notable well preserved.”
He thought that the discovery of a well -preserved gigantic is very strange, it is not unheard of for other gigantic ones, they remain to be discovered.
In June 2024, a fisherman found a bone on the banks of the Raba River in Ksiąnice, near Gdów, Poland.
In August of the same year, a fossil collector discovered a portion of a Colombian fang in an embankment in Madison County, Mississippi.
Reuters contributed to this report.
