They recover wool rhinoceros from the Ice Age in Russia

Moscow – A well-preserved wool-era rhinoceros rhinoceros with many of its internal organs still intact has been recovered from the permafrost at the northern end of Russia, Russian media reported on Wednesday.

The body was revealed by a meltdown in the permafrost of Yakitia in August, media reported. Scientists expect the Arctic ice roads to become passable to take it to a lab to be studied in January.

It is one of the best preserved specimens of the Ice Age ever found. The corpse has most of the soft tissues still intact, including part of the intestines, thick hair and a lump of fat. His horn was next to his body.

In recent years, important discoveries have been made of mammoths, woolly rhinos, Ice Age foals and cave lion cubs as permafrost melts more and more in large areas of Siberia due to the global warming.

Valery Plotnikov, a paleontologist at the regional unit of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said the rhino laude was probably between 3 and 4 years old when he died, according to what was reported by Yakutia 24 TV.

Plotnikov said the young rhino probably drowned.

Scientists have said the corpse is between 20,000 and 50,000 years old. More accurate dating will be possible once you get to a lab to undergo radiocarbon studies.

The carcass was found on the banks of the Tirekhtyakh River in the Abyisk district, near an area where another young woolly rhino was recovered in 2014. The researchers reported that the specimen, which they called Sasha, he was 34,000 years old.