The frozen ground is melting and revealed… “Jang-gi as is”
The body of a baby mammoth, estimated to have survived about 50,000 years ago, was discovered in Siberia, where the Sakha Republic in eastern Russia is famous for its extreme cold.
Britain’s BBC reported on the 23rd (local time) that “Russia’s North-East Federal University in Yakutsk, the capital of Sakha, discovered the body of a female mammoth calf about one year old.” According to the Russian North-Eastern Federal University, the body, measuring 1.2 m in height, 2 m in length, and weighing 180 kg, was discovered in the permafrost in the northern part of the Sakha Republic in June this year. The body, exposed as the frozen ground thawed in the summer, happened to be noticed by residents living nearby. The baby mammoth was named ‘Yana’ after the river that flows near the discovery site.
Russian state media Tass quoted Anatoly Nikolay, Rector of Russia’s North-Eastern Federal University, as saying, “Everyone was surprised by the mammoth’s special preservation condition.” Maksim Cheprasov, director of the Mammoth Museum, also said, “All the organs of the corpse are preserved intact, especially the head, which is in a very good state of preservation.” He also said, “It is the best mammoth corpse discovered in the world so far.” Scientists plan to conduct radiocarbon dating to determine the exact age of the body.
Reporter Kim Bora [email protected]
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