Mammoth ivory is legal, even if the trade is poorly ... an expedition to northern Yakutiya have ever traveled beyond the Siberian tundra. Yet they are all keenly aware of Chinese demand, which ...

After spending around 130,000 years buried in Siberian permafrost, Yana (named after the river basin in which she was found) is one of the most well-preserved mammoth specimens ever found.

Tusk and Sunset A mammoth’s tusk spikes the Siberian sky on Bolshoy Lyakhovskiy ... on the island to document the hunt for ancient ivory. “They can’t sell the skull,” she says of the ...

Russian scientists have cut open and examined a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth preserved in Siberian permafrost. The yearling mammoth, nicknamed "Yana," was first unveiled in December 2024.

Brett Westwood hears how demand for mammoth ivory is growing ... Mammoths discovered preserved in the Siberian permafrost were believed to be burrowing animals that avoided sunlight and died ...

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.

The outbreak began when a team of scientists and documentary film-makers excavated the remains of a woolly mammoth in the frozen Arctic tundra.

According to the Live Science portal, archaeologists suspect that people at the time used ivory to produce tools, including spears. The woolly mammoth, standing about 3.5 metres tall, was a key ...