Joel Kontinen
Siberia seems to be a treasure drove for ancient animals. Scientists have found wolves, a burly unicorn and a horse with blood flowing from it and cave lions that were not able to be fossilised despite being 10,000 years old.
Now, they have discovered a mummified cave bear, It has soft tissue, including its fur and even its black nose.
Reindeer hunters have found the cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) mummy on Bolshoy Lyakhovsky island, in the East Siberian Sea brown bear (U. arctos) and the polar bear (U. maritimus).
The article in live science also brought to live the fact that they were there for almost a million years: After living in Eurasia since at least 300,000 years ago, cave bears mysteriously went extinct some 25,000 to 30,000 years ago, Humans likely hunted the bears to extinction, a 2019 study in the journal Scientific Reports found.
Source:
Geggel, Laura. 2020. Cave bear mummy discovered in Siberia still has its internal organs, fur and black nose. Live Science 15 September.
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