The mammoth has been named "Yana" in honor of the Yana River that flows through the Verkhoyansk district where the discovery was made. Maxim Cheprasov, the head of the Mammoth Museum at NEFU ...
dubbed “Yana” after the Yana River basin where it was found in eastern Siberia in Russia, “is definitely the best-preserved in the world.” Researchers unveiled the carcass Monday.