Juvenile woolly rhino unearthed in Siberia

[Eldorado]

The juvenile rhino with thick hazel-coloured hair and the horn, found next to the carcass was discovered in the middle of August in permafrost deposits by river Tirekhtyakh in the Abyisky ulus (district) of the Republic of Sakha.

The sensational discovery is still in the Arctic Yakutia waiting for ice roads to form, so that it can be delivered to scientists in the republic’s capital Yakutsk. 

It is the best preserved to date juvenile woolly rhino ever found in Yakutia, with a lot of its internal organs - including its teeth, part of the intestines, a lump of fat and tissues - kept intact for thousands of years in permafrost. 

Full monty at the Siberian Times: Link

[Myles]

Let's clone it.   

[Eldorado]

The uniquely preserved teenage wholly rhino with even its brain intact, found in the north-east of Yakutia last summer has been defrosted for the first time since it died at least 20,000 years ago. 

The juvenile rhino with thick hazel-coloured hair, a horn and one upper premolar was found in the middle of August in permafrost deposits by river Tirekhtyakh in the Abyisky ulus (district) of Arctic Yakutia.

The sensational discovery was delivered to Yakutsk once ice roads formed in late Autumn, and today was presented to the media.

Full article at the Siberian Times: Link

[acute]

I bet the meat is a bit tough. 

[Still Waters]

Update:

Teenage woolly rhino still fed on mother’s milk when it died in Pleistocene era

Scientists share first results on the world's best-preserved extinct rhino that lived in Yakutia at least 20,000 years ago.

Intriguingly, the adolescent was still sucking its mother’s milk while having a ‘normal’ grass diet, too.

‘The back side of its horn was noticeably worn out. We believe the horn was getting rubbed against its mother’s tummy each time it knelt down to suckle. 

‘The front of the horn was quite worn out, too, because the rhino used it to dig soil and snow to search for food. This is similar to the modern rhinoceros, when mothers feed their calves for up to two years,’ said Dr Valery Plotnikov, from the Department for Study of Mammoth Fauna at Yakutia’s Academy of Sciences.

https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/worlds-best-preserved-teenage-woolly-rhino-still-feeding-on-mothers-milk-when-it-died-in-pleistocene-era/