A BABY mammoth has gone under the knife – after being preserved in Siberian permafrost for 130,000 years. Russian scientists carried out a necropsy on the long-dead mammoth calf, nicknamed Yana.

Genetic analysis of the giant woolly mammoth reveals a surprising amount of genetic diversity over a million years.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The woolly mammoth is long gone, having been pushed to extinction thousands of years ...

In 1864, a complete woolly mammoth skull was found in Ilford in Essex ... living in a relatively warm period between two Ice Ages. The tusks are about 2.5m long and the skull, including the ...