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Judi Lynn

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Mon Sep 14, 2020, 12:48 PM Sep 2020

Perfectly preserved Ice Age cave bear found in Arctic Russia

SEP 14, 2020 11:18 AM
ASSOCIATED PRESS

Reindeer herders in a Russian Arctic archipelago have found an immaculately preserved carcass of an Ice Age cave bear, researchers said Monday.

The find, revealed by the melting permafrost, was discovered on the Lyakhovsky Islands with its teeth and even its nose intact. Previously scientists only had been able to discover the bones of cave bears that became extinct 15,000 years ago.

Scientists of the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, the premier center for research into woolly mammoths and other prehistoric species, hailed the find as groundbreaking.

In a statement issued by the university, researcher Lena Grigorieva emphasized that “this is the first and only find of its kind — a whole bear carcass with soft tissues.”

More:
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/world/2020/09/14/preserved-Ice-Age-cave-bear-found-Arctic-Russia/stories/202009140075

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