Necropsy on 400lb baby MAMMOTH frozen for 130,000 years carried out by Russian scientists – they even revealed its smell

But scientists also fear that it could release dangerous pathogens that have been frozen in time. There are some hypotheses or conjectures that in the permafrost there could be preserved pathogenic microorganisms," warned Goncharov. "Which when it thaws can get into the water, plants and the bodies of animals – and humans."