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Omaha Steve

(103,772 posts)
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 03:41 PM 17 hrs ago

Baby mammoth preserved for 50,000 years is unveiled in Russia's Siberia

Source: AP

Updated 9:03 AM CST, December 24, 2024

MOSCOW (AP) — The 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia’s Siberia region who call it the best-preserved mammoth body ever found.

Nicknamed Yana, the female mammoth weighs more than 100 kilograms (220 pounds) and is 120 centimeters (47 inches) tall.

Scientists believe that Yana was 1 year old when she died. Her remains are one of seven mammoth carcasses recovered worldwide.

Yana was found among the melting permafrost at the Batagaika crater in the far-eastern Russian area of Yakutia. Known as the “gateway to the underworld,” the crater is 1 kilometer deep and has previously revealed the remains of other ancient animals including bison, horses and dogs.



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/yana-baby-mammoth-remains-siberia-8966c2122128512ed2ec28506eb8e962

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Baby mammoth preserved for 50,000 years is unveiled in Russia's Siberia (Original Post) Omaha Steve 17 hrs ago OP
Wow,... thanks for sharing. magicarpet 16 hrs ago #1
What a beautiful animal montanacowboy 16 hrs ago #2
Solzhenitsyn describes a crew of Soviet Gulag prison laborers JoseBalow 15 hrs ago #3
Seems soon, many good people will become ZEKs. Kid Berwyn 15 hrs ago #4
WAITING FOR THAT HUNK OF AMBER WITH THE GIANT MOSQUITO WITH dino DNA YoshidaYui 12 hrs ago #5
Impossible! The Earth is only 6000 years old 😜 Firestorm49 11 hrs ago #6
Nice. GB_RN 11 hrs ago #7

JoseBalow

(5,630 posts)
3. Solzhenitsyn describes a crew of Soviet Gulag prison laborers
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 04:48 PM
15 hrs ago

(in the opening paragraphs of The Gulag Archipelago) finding some prehistoric fish and salamanders frozen in the ice they were digging in, which they promptly ate due to their starvation.

I am always reminded of that whenever I hear of stories like this. If it were a mammoth they had found, they surely would have eaten that too, "with relish." I wonder how many other such discoveries may have been similarly lost.

In 1949 some friends and I came upon a noteworthy news item in Nature, a magazine of the Academy of Sciences. It reported in tiny type that in the course of excavations on the Kolyma River a subterranean ice lens had been discovered which was actually a frozen stream — and in it were found frozen specimens of prehistoric fauna some tens of thousands of years old. Whether fish or salamander, these were preserved in so fresh a state, the scientific correspondent reported, that those present immediately broke open the ice encasing the specimens and devoured them with relish on the spot.

Few readers of that science journal, Solzhenitsyn observed, would have understood what sort of people rush to eat prehistoric creatures. But he and his friends had understood immediately, for they, too had been zeks, the half-starved prisoners of the network of hundreds of forced labor camps spread across the world’s largest country like a string of islands. Each of those islands had been governed by the Soviet Union’s “Main Camp Administration,” whose Russian acronym was GULAG.

Kid Berwyn

(18,335 posts)
4. Seems soon, many good people will become ZEKs.
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 05:01 PM
15 hrs ago

Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, Ka$h Patel and Putin’s puppets will do all they can to transform the United States into a GULAG for the 21st Century.

GB_RN

(3,217 posts)
7. Nice.
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 09:41 PM
11 hrs ago

Love science stories.

It’s too bad that Putin chooses to waste his country’s resources on a failing war instead of helping promote this kind of thing.

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