[ad_1]
Valery Plotnikov / AP
This photo taken in August 2020 shows the carcass of a woolly rhino, taken in Yakutia.
A well-preserved Ice Age woolly rhino with many of its internal organs still intact has been recovered from permafrost in the far north of Russia.
Russian media reported on Wednesday that the body was revealed by melting permafrost in Yakutia in August. Scientists are waiting for the ice roads in the Arctic region to be passable to bring them to a laboratory for studies next month.
It is one of the best preserved specimens of the Ice Age animal found to date. The carcass has most of its soft tissues still intact, including part of the intestines, thick hair, and a lump of fat. His horn was found by his side.
Recent years have seen major discoveries of mammoths, woolly rhinos, Ice Age foals, and cave lion cubs as permafrost increasingly melts across vast areas of Siberia due to global warming.
Valery Plotnikov / AP
The well-preserved corpse with most of its internal organs still intact was freed by permafrost.
Yakutia 24 TV quoted Valery Plotnikov, a paleontologist from the regional branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as saying that the woolly rhino was probably 3 or 4 years old when it died.
Plotnikov said the young rhino probably drowned.
Scientists dated the corpse to between 20,000 and 50,000 years old. More accurate dating will be possible once it is delivered to a laboratory for radiocarbon studies.
The corpse was found on the bank of the Tirekhtyakh River in the Abyisk district, near the area where another young woolly rhino was recovered in 2014. Researchers dated that specimen, which they named Sasha, at 34,000 years old.
