Necropsy on 400lb baby MAMMOTH frozen for 130,000 years carried out by Russian scientists – they even revealed its smell
Dissecting her body is a treasure trove for the half dozen scientists that were carrying out the necropsy in late March at the Mammoth Museum at North-Eastern Federal University in the regional capital, Yakutsk.
Wearing white sterile bodysuits, goggles and facemasks, the zoologists and biologists spent several hours working on the front quarters of the mammoth, a species that died out almost 4,000 years ago.
"We can see that many organs and tissues are very well preserved," Goncharov said.
"The digestive tract is partly preserved, the stomach is preserved. There are still fragments of the intestines, in particular the colon," enabling scientists to take samples, he said.
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