50,000-year-old baby mammoth may be ‘best-preserved’ specimen yet

Nicknamed Yana, this one-year-old mammoth is believed to have got ‘trapped in a swamp’ where the carcass was preserved for 50,000 years (Picture: Michil Yakovlev/North-Eastern Federal University via AFP)

A 50,000-year-old baby mammoth pulled from melting permafrost could be the best-preserved specimen ever found.

Weighting more than 100kg, standing 120cm tall and estimated to have been one year old, Yana is one of just seven mammoth carcasses ever recovered.

One of those was in Canada...