Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia's far east looked like pathologists ...

But the body they were dissecting was a baby mammoth who died around 130,000 years ... thaws the permafrost in which she was found. Yana's skin has kept its grayish-brown color and clumps of ...

Measuring 1.2 meters (nearly four feet) at the shoulder and weighing 180 kilograms (almost 400 pounds), Yana's preserved body offers a treasure trove of information.

The orbits of her eyes are perfectly recognisable and her sturdy legs resemble those of a modern-day ... for ancient microorganisms" preserved inside the mammoth, so they can study their "evolutionary ...