The best-preserved baby mammoth ever found has been unveiled by scientists in Russia.

It is a female that lived 50,000 years ago. Scientists named it Yana, after the river in which it was discovered in Siberia this summer.

The animal was spotted near the Bataiga research station, where the remains of other prehistoric animals have been found, including a horse, a bison and a lemming.

It is one of only seven whole remains ever found, all but one in Russia.

The mammoth is in excellent condition because it was preserved in the ice from the very beginning.

The mammoth weighed 180 kg, was 120 cm tall and 200 cm long.

Studies will show the exact age of the mammoth at the time of its death, although it is estimated to have been about a year old.