![]() ![]() A number of other Ice Age animals including mammoths, a foal and cave lion cubs have been found across the region as permafrost melts due to rising temperatures. The carcass was revealed due to melting permafrost. The exact time would be confirmed only when it is sent for carbon dating once snowbound roads in the area open next month. Scientists have dated the carcass to be anywhere between 20,000 and 50,000 years old. Its horn was found near it.Ī television station in Yakutia quoted a scientist as saying that the animal was probably three to four years of age when it died due to drowning. It had perfectly preserved soft tissue, hair and a lump of fat. The animal was discovered on the bank of the Tirekhtyakh river in the Abyisk district in Yakutia. A perfectly preserved woolly rhinoceros was found by scientists in Yakutia, in Russia’s far north, according to a report on the science website,. ![]()
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