Researchers stand behind glass fencing as they show the carcass of a baby mammoth, which is estimated to be over 50,000 years old and was found in the Siberian permafrost in the Batagaika crater in the Verkhoyansky district of Yakutia, during a demonstration in the laboratory of the Mammoth Museum at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, Russia, December 23, 2024. REUTERS/Roman Kutukov TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Jana je dobila ime po reki, v porečju katere so jo odkrili to poletje. Foto: Reuters

50.000 let stara Jana navdušila znanstvenike

V ruski regiji Jakutija v Sibiriji so pod permafrostom odkrili ostanke mladiča mamuta, stare kar 50.000 let. Gre za eno od le sedmih podobnih najdb na svetu, Jana, kot so poimenovali samičko, pa je celo najbolje ohranjena.

24. 12. 2024., 11.05
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Jana je dobila ime po reki, v porečju katere so jo odkrili to poletje.

Naslednji korak je natančna določitev njene starosti. Po prvih analizah je bila ob smrti stara približno leto dni.

FILE PHOTO: A view shows the carcass of a baby mammoth, which is estimated to be over 50,000 years old, after it was found by researchers in the Siberian permafrost in the Batagaika crater in the Verkhoyansky district of the Sakha Republic, also known as Yakutia, Russia, June 13, 2024. REUTERS/Nikolai Gogolev NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT./File Photo

Po prvih analizah je bila ob smrti stara približno leto dni. Foto: Reuters

Njene ostanke so predstavili javnosti v laboratoriju Severovzhodne univerze v Jakutsku. "Vsi smo bili presenečeni, kako izjemno dobro je ohranjena," je povedal rektor univerze Anatolij Nikolajev.

Maksim Čeprasov iz ekipe raziskovalcev, ki je prevzela nadaljnje analize, pa je dejal, da gre za "edinstveno odkritje".

FILE PHOTO: A view shows the carcass of a baby mammoth, which is estimated to be over 50,000 years old, after it was found by researchers in the Siberian permafrost in the Batagaika crater in the Verkhoyansky district of the Sakha Republic, also known as Yakutia, Russia, June 13, 2024. REUTERS/Nikolai Gogolev NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT./File Photo

Pred tem odkritjem so na svetu našli le šest ostankov mamuta – pet v Rusiji in enega v Kanadi, so sporočili z univerze. Foto: Reuters

Teža Janinih posmrtnih ostankov znaša 180 kg, visoka je bila 120 cm, dolga pa dva metra. Izkopali so jih v bližini raziskovalne postaje Batagajka, kjer so v preteklosti že našli ostanke drugih prazgodovinskih živali – vključno s konjem, bizonom in lemingom.

The carcass of a baby mammoth, which is estimated to be over 50,000 years old and was recently found in the Siberian permafrost in the Batagaika crater in the Verkhoyansky district of Yakutia, is seen behind glass fencing during a demonstration in the laboratory of the Mammoth Museum at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, Russia, December 23, 2024. REUTERS/Roman Kutukov

Naslednji korak je natančna določitev njene starosti. Foto: Reuters

Pred tem odkritjem so na svetu našli le šest ostankov mamuta – pet v Rusiji in enega v Kanadi, so sporočili z univerze.

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