Discovered near the Yana River, in Yakutia, this small female mammoth, nicknamed Yana, lived approximately 50,000 years ago. The permafrost, a permanently frozen layer of soil, preserved her body ...
The mammoth has been named "Yana" in honor of the Yana River that flows through the Verkhoyansk district where the discovery was made. Maxim Cheprasov, the head of the Mammoth Museum at NEFU ...