130,000-year-old mammoth calf smells like 'fermented earth and flesh,' necropsy reveals

A group of scientists gather around a dissection table with a woolly mammoth baby.

Russian scientists have cut open and examined a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth preserved in Siberian permafrost.

The yearling mammoth, nicknamed "Yana," was first unveiled in December 2024. The researchers who discovered Yana said she was the best-preserved mammoth ever found, the Associated Press reported at the time. The front part of Yana's body is almost entirely intact and looks very similar to a baby elephant.