Woolly rhinoceros recovered from the Ice Age in Russia

Moscow – A well-preserved Ice Age woolly rhinoceros with many of its internal organs still intact has been found in the permafrost of the far north of RussiaRussian media reported on Wednesday.

The body was revealed by a melt in Yakitia permafrost in August, the media reported. Scientists hope the Arctic ice roads will become passable before taking it to a lab for research in January.

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

Significant discoveries of mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, Ice Age foals and cave lion cubs have been made in recent years as permafrost is increasingly melting in much of Siberia due to global warming.

Valery Plotnikov, a paleontologist with the Russian Academy of Sciences regional unit, said the rhinoceros was probably 3 to 4 years old when it died, according to Yakutia 24 TV.

Plotnikov said the young rhinoceros probably drowned.

Scientists have said the corpse is between 20,000 and 50,000 years old. More accurate dating will be possible once it reaches a radiocarbon testing lab.

The carcass was found on the bank of the Tirekhtyakh River in Abyisk district, near an area where another young woolly rhinoceros was recovered in 2014. Investigators reported that the specimen, which they named Sasha, was 34,000 years old.