Baby mammoth found 50,000 years ago in Siberia, Russia

A baby mammoth was found 50,000 years ago in Yakutya, Siberia, Russia, Russian media including Izvestya reported.

Russia's Northeastern Federal University in Yakutsk, the capital of Yakutya, said on Sunday it had found the well-preserved body of a female mammoth, which is believed to have lived 50,000 years ago.

The size was measured 1.2m tall, 2m long, and 180kg of weight.

Scholars will perform radiocarbon dating next year to determine the exact age of the mammoth.

The mummy, now on display at the Northeast Federal University, was discovered in June in the Batagaika crater near the village of Batagai in the Verkhoyanski region of northern Yakutya.

The baby mammoth was named 'Yana' after a river that flows near the discovery site.

Maxim Cheprasov, director of the Northeast Federal University Mammoth Museum, said, "It's the best mammoth found in the world right now," adding, "All organs are preserved, especially in very good head preservation condition. Nose, mouth, ears, and eye sockets were also preserved. I wasn't even eaten by predators," he said.

It is also the seventh time that mammoth bodies believed to have lived during the Ice Age have been found, with five previously found in Russia and one in Canada.