Remains of ice age cave bear found preserved in Russian Arctic

We are getting a full carcass here which is wonderful.  The permafrost is producing the whole Ice Age menagery.

If it is possible to restore this menagery using DNA, then it will be possible to set up a working refugia somewhere in the Siberian hinterland.  Recall this original population collapse was brought about by the shock wave produced by the incoming Comet.

This toolk place 12,900 BP although small populations did hang out on hte edges for a while..

Remains of Ice Age cave bear found perfectly preserved in Russia

By Tamar Lapin

September 14, 2020 | 5:30pm

https://nypost.com/2020/09/14/remains-of-ice-age-cave-bear-found-perfectly-preserved-in-russia/

Reindeer herders in the Russian Arctic recently made a “grizzly” discovery — the perfectly preserved carcass of an Ice Age cave bear, researchers announced Monday.

Melting permafrost on the Lyakhovsky Islands revealed the find “of great importance for the whole world,” said scientists from the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.

“This is the first and only find of its kind — a whole bear carcass with soft tissues,” said researcher Lena Grigorieva in a statement.

The ancient bear, estimated to be to be between 22,000 and 39,500 years old, was found in mint condition, with even his nose and teeth intact.

“It is completely preserved, with all internal organs in place,” said Grigorieva. “This find is of great importance for the whole world.”

Previously, scientists only had been able to uncover the bones of cave bears that became extinct 15,000 years ago.

Maxim Cheprasov, a senior researcher from the Mammoth Museum laboratory in Yakutsk, said in the statement: “It is necessary to carry out radiocarbon analysis to determine the precise age of the bear.”

Scientists have yet to be able to visit the remote site of the find, located on the New Siberian Islands archipelago that lies between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea.

As the permafrost melts across vast areas in Russia’s region of Siberia, there have been several major discoveries in recent years including of mammoths, woolly rhinos, Ice Age foal, several puppies and Cave Lion cubs.