Young mammoth remains discovered in Siberian permafrost after 50k years
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mammoth-remains-siberia-1.7417674

* juvenile mammoth weighed ~110 kg
* prob. little over a year old when died
* particularly unusual head/trunk survived

* latest of series of spectacular discoveries in the Russian permafrost
* 32k y.o remains of a tiny saber-toothed cat cub
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113489736513609830

* 44k y.o. wolf carcass uncovered
https://www.reuters.com/science/russian-scientists-conduct-autopsy-44000-year-old-permafrost-wolf-carcass-2024-06-28

#permafrost #fossil #IceMummy #ecology #evolution #palaeontology #zoology

50,000-year-old remains of young mammoth found in Russian permafrost | CBC News

Researchers in Siberia are conducting tests on a juvenile mammoth whose remarkably well-preserved remains were discovered in thawing permafrost after more than 50,000 years.

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Saber-toothed kitten frozen in Siberian ice reveals new details about species
https://www.science.org/content/article/saber-toothed-kitten-frozen-siberian-ice-reveals-new-details-about-species

* ice mummy preserves extinct cat f. claws to paws
* late Pleistocene, 35,500 - 37,000 years ago

Mummy of a juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from the Upper Pleistocene of Siberia
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-79546-1

Sabre-toothed 'kitten' mummy unearthed in Siberia is first of its kind
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/sabre-toothed-kitten-mummy-unearthed-in-siberia-is-first-of-its-kind-1.7114255

#fossil #IceMummy #sabretooth #kitten #ecology #evolution #palaeontology #zoology