Scientists discovered the corpse of a baby mammoth, which is 50,000 years old

Russian scientists have discovered the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth found this summer in thawed permafrost in remote Yakutia, Siberia.

“She” – named after the river basin where she was found – is said to be the best-preserved mammoth carcass in the world.

Weighing over 100 kg (15 10 lb) and measuring 120 cm (4 ft) tall and 200 cm long, Janne is estimated to have been only about one year old when she died.

Before this discovery, only six similar discoveries were found in the world – five in Russia and one in Canada.

It was found by people living nearby in the Batagayka Crater, the world’s largest permafrost crater.

Residents “were in the right place at the right time,” said the head of the laboratory of the Lazarov Mammoth Museum.

“They saw that the mammoth had almost completely thawed,” and decided to build an improvised stretcher to lift the mammoth to the surface, Maksim Charpasov said.

“Typically, the part that thaws first, especially the trunk, is often eaten by modern predators or birds,” he told Reuters.

But “despite the fact that the front limbs have already been eaten, the head is perfectly preserved,” he added.

Gavril Novgorodov, a researcher at the museum, told Reuters that the mammoth “probably got trapped” in the swamp, and “preserved in this way for several tens of thousands of years.”

She studies at the North-Eastern Federal University in the capital of the Yakutsk region.

Scientists are now carrying out tests to confirm when he died.

This is not the only prehistoric discovery found in the permafrost of Russia in recent years – as the long-frozen earth begins to thaw due to climate change.

Only last month, scientists in the same region showed the remains the partially mummified body of a saber-toothed catit is believed to be just under 32,000 years old.

Earlier this year, the remains of a 44,000-year-old wolf were also discovered.