After making the incisions and taking care of the samples carefully, a laboratory in the Far East of Russia looked like a scientist pathologist, who pushed a post -mortem forward.
But the body he was disintegrating is a child who died about 130,000 years ago.
Last year discovered, calf – surname Yana, for the river basin where it was found – is in a remarkable state of protection, which gives scientists a glimpse in the past and, potentially, as a future, as climate change, he melts the peramfrost in which he was found.
Yana’s skin has kept her brown-brown color and a group of red hair. His wrinkled trunk is curved and indicates his mouth. Her eyes classes are perfectly recognizable and her strong legs resemble a modern day elephant.
This necropy – a corpse on an animal – “is an opportunity to see the past of our planet”, Artmi Gonecharov said, who is the lead of the laboratory of functional genomics and microorganisms at the Experimental Medical Institute in St. Petersburg.
Scientists hopefully find out unique ancient bacteria and carry out genetic analysis of plants and Yana ate to learn more about the place and time he lived.
The calf said to a large extent about time, as he lay down for thousands of years engaged in Parmafrost in Sakha region in Siberia.
Russian scientists stated that 1.2 meters (about four feet) and two meters long on the shoulder, and 180 kg (about 400 pounds), Yana can be the best preserved huge sample, which can be found maintaining internal organs and soft tissues.
Stomach, intestine
Sevoting her body is a treasure for half a dozen scientists who were excluding Nekropsi at the late March at the Mammath Museum at the North-Eastern Federal University in the regional capital Yakutsk.
White sterile bodies, goggles and facemasks wearing, animals and biologists spent several hours working on the quarters in front of the mammath, a species that died about 4,000 years ago.
“We can see that many organs and tissues are very well preserved,” Gonicharova said.
He said, “The digestive system is partially preserved, the stomach is preserved. The intestinal pieces are still, especially in the colon,” the scientists enable to take samples, he said.
He said that they are “searching for ancient microorganisms” which are preserved inside the huge, so they can study “evolutionary relations with modern microorganisms”.
While one scientist cut Yana’s skin with scissors, the other made an incision in the internal wall with a scalpel. They then placed tissue samples in the test tube and bag for analysis.
Another table had the Hindthi Hindlitter of Mammath, which remained inherent in a rock when he fell under the front quarters.
The fragrance emanating from the mammoth was reminiscent of the fermented earth and a mixture of meat, which was maceted in the Siberian subcowel.
“We are trying to reach the genitals,” said Artayam Nedoluzco, director of the Palogenomics Laboratory of the European University in St. Petersburg.
“Using special equipment, we want to get into her vagina to collect the material to understand what the microbyota lived inside her when she was alive.”
‘Milk Task’
Mammath Museum Director Maxim Cheprasov said that Yana was first estimated to die about 50,000 years ago, but now he is dated “over 130,000 years” after analysis of the permafrost layer.
For her age at the time of death, “it is already clear that she is over a year of age because her milk tusks have already appeared,” he said.
Both elephants and giant have early milk tusks that later get out.
Scientists have not been determined why Yana became so young.
At the time when it was a vegetarian mammal grass chewing, “there was no human in the field of Yakutia here yet”, Cheprasov said, as they appeared in the modern day Siberia 28,000 to 32,000 years ago.
The mystery of Yana’s extraordinary protection lies in the permafrost: in this area of ​​Siberia, the soil which is frozen throughout the year and acts like a huge freezer, which preserves the bodies of prehistoric animals.
The discovery of the exposed body of Yana came due to the permigration permafrost, which is due to global warming.
The study of microbiology of such ancient remains also examines the “organic risks” of global warming, Gonicharova said.
Some scientists are doing research whether the melting permafrost can potentially release harmful pathogens, they explained.
He said, “There are some hypotheses or estimates that pathogenic microorganisms can be preserved in permafrost, which can reach the body of water, plants and animals – and the body of humans,” he said.
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