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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBear from Ice Age found 'completely preserved' in Russian Arctic
The immaculately preserved remains of an Ice Age-era bear have been unearthed by reindeer herders in the Russian Arctic, researchers have said.The bear was revealed by the melting permafrost on the Lyakhovsky Islands in north-eastern Russia.
With its teeth and nose intact, the bear is thought to be a species of brown bear that lived 22,000 to 39,500 years ago.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54160645
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Bear from Ice Age found 'completely preserved' in Russian Arctic (Original Post)
EX500rider
Sep 2020
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DFW
(54,369 posts)1. That is an amazing find
Though the melting of the permafrost is far too high a price to pay for it.
Cirque du So-What
(25,932 posts)2. I wonder if an ice-age human will ever get uncovered?
along with ice-age pathogens that modern humans may be unprepared for.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)3. It was, unfortunately he
became a lawyer....
Chainfire
(17,536 posts)4. We may be learning about the past
at the same time that we are losing our future.
That is an amazing find. Time to call in the Jurassic park scientists, I can see good DNA in that from here.