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The rhino was found in a river in Russia’s Yakutia region in August. The remains are well preserved, as well as the four grazing bones, some organs and wool remains, paleontologist Valery Plotnikov told local media Yakutien 24 according to Reuters.
According to the researcher, the rhino may have lived during the latter part of the Pleistocene, which ended 11,700 years ago. The animal must have died at the age of three or four and appears to have used its grasses to manipulate food, based on the markings found in the grasses, he says.
– A small rhinoceros has been preserved; this is weird because it breaks down pretty quickly, he says.
The researchers will now take the remains to the city of Yakutsk, where they will take samples and perform carbon 14 analysis.
But the finding is it is not unique.
In 2014, another woolly rhino was found near the site. The researchers estimated the remains to be 34,000 years old. Mammoths and cave lion cubs have also been found in Siberia, reports the BBC.
The findings have increased in line with climate change. The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the world and in some places the permafrost has thawed.
