At a laboratory in Russia's far east, scientists carry out a post-mortem -- the body they are dissecting is a baby mammoth who died around 130,000 years ago. Discovered last year, the calf -- nicknamed Yana, for the river basin where she was found -- is in a remarkable state of preservation, giving scientists a glimpse into the past and, potentially, the future as climate change thaws the permafrost in which she was found.
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00:00This is the left part.
00:02This part is the food part.
00:04He is right here, behind him.
00:10I will now take it to you.
00:14This part of the stomach.
00:16This part of the stomach.
00:18This part of the stomach.
00:26Is it the liver?
00:28It is clear that it is more than a year.
00:36Because the liver is already released.
00:38And regarding the age of geological,
00:42we can say that it is more than 130 000 years old.
00:46And this is the only found in the world in such a healthy skin.
00:50It is 8,5 mm in length.
00:54For us, these researches,
01:08For us, this research is the opportunity to look into the past of our planet and see what it was and how we can use these data, these information to get new knowledge in the field of microbiology.