Category: preserved

Best Preserved Ice Age Animal Ever Found? Study Reveals Age of Lion Cubs From Siberian Permafrost

An international group of scientists are studying two well-preserved cave lion cubs found in Siberian permafrost. A professor of Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm and one of the authors of a study on the cubs, Love Dalen, told CNN that one of them, a female lion nicknamed Sparta, “is probably the best preserved Ice Age…


Cave Lion Cub Found in Siberian Permafrost Is 28,000 Years Old

YAKUTSK, Russia—Scientists have said that an astonishingly well-preserved cave lion cub found in Siberia’s permafrost lived 28,000 years ago and may even still have traces of its mother’s milk in it. The female cub, named Sparta, was found at the Semyuelyakh River in Russia’s Yakutia region in 2018 and a second lion cub called Boris…