“Unearthed from the Past: Siberian Reindeer Herders Discover Frozen Cave Bear with Shocking Secrets Still Inside!”
NEFUThough beastly creatures, cave bears feasted mainly on vegetation — and occasionally each other.
This groundbreaking discovery was quickly coupled with another startling find. On the nearby mainland of Yakutia, researchers were alerted to the remains of an Ice Age cave bear cub. This specimen has yet to be studied properly, but it is also suspected to have lived around the same time period as the adult.
“It is necessary to carry out radiocarbon analysis to determine the precise age of the bear,” said senior researcher Maxim Cheprasov from the Mammoth Museum laboratory in Yakutsk.
Researchers are now planning to collaborate with international colleagues to carry out a study on both specimens, something of a large scale research project in the same vein as the famous Malolyakhovsky mammoth, Cheprasov said.
Cheprasov was referring to a 2019 study which examined the cells extracted from the remains of a well-preserved 43,000-year-old mammoth carcass found on the island of Maly Lyakhov, another one of the Lyakhovsky Islands.
“We will have to study the carcass of a bear using all modern scientific research methods — molecular genetic, cellular, microbiological and others,” he explained.
Wikimedia CommonsUrsus Spelaeus was a gargantuan creature, standing several feet higher than a polar bear on average — and weighing nearly double.
This prehistoric cave bear isn’t the only preserved specimen to come out of Siberia recently. Among the most exciting recent findings is the skeleton of a woolly mammoth, which had ligaments still attached to its bones. Like the cave bear, this specimen was found accidentally by reindeer herders.
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