러시아 과학자들은 잘 보존 된 털북숭이 코뿔소의 유해를 조사하고 있습니다. 12,000 years ago after it was found in the diamond-producing region of Yakutia.
Similar finds in Russia’s vast Siberian region have happened with increasing regularity as climate change, which is warming the Arctic at a faster pace than the rest of the world, has thawed the ground in some areas long locked in permafrost.
The rhino was found at a river in August complete with all its limbs, some of its organs, its tusk — a rarity for such finds — and even its wool, scientist Valery Plotnikov was quoted as saying by Yakutia 24, a local media outlet.
Plotnikov said the woolly rhino may have lived in the late Pleistocene era, which ended 11,700 여러 해 전에.
The beast appeared to use its tusk to gather food, judging by the erosion marks found on it, the scientist said.
