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Laid down on this operating table are the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth nicknamed Yana. On 27 March, scientists performed a necropsy on Yana at North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, Russia. The carcass, which was found in thawing permafrost last summer, is 2 metres long and weighs 180 kilograms.