The images show well-preserved remains of 50,000-year-old mammoth babies found in Siberia

On Monday, researchers in Russia uncovered well-preserved remains of a 50,000-year-old girl. Mammoth Found in thawing permafrost in the Yakutia region of Siberia.

The mammoth remains – named “Yana” after the river in whose basin they were discovered this summer – are the best preserved mammoth carcass in the world. Experts said it was one of seven complete remains ever found.

It is estimated that Yana was only 1 year old when she died, weighing more than 397 pounds and standing about 4 feet 200 centimeters tall.

“We were all surprised Exceptional preservation “From a mammoth,” said Anatoly Nikolaev, dean of the North-Eastern Federal University where the carcass is displayed.

The mammoth, which resembles a small elephant with a trunk, was found near the Batagaika Research Station, where the remains of other prehistoric animals – a horse, a bison and a lemming – were also found.

said Maxim Cherbasov, head of the laboratory of the Lazarev Mammoth Museum in the city of Yakutsk Reuters The fact that the animal’s head and torso survived was particularly unusual.

“As a rule, the part that molts first, especially the trunk, is often eaten by predators or modern birds,” Cherbasov said. “Here, for example, although the forelimbs have already been eaten, the head is remarkably well preserved.” .

Before this discovery, only six mammoth carcasses had been found in the world, five of which were in Russia One in CanadaThe university said.

Yakutia is a remote region bordering the Arctic Ocean. The permafrost acts like a giant freezer that preserves the remains of prehistoric animals.