According to the Russian media reports, the carcass of an Ice Age woolly rhino has been recovered from permafrost in Yakutia,
- Russia Scientists dated the carcass as anywhere from 20,000- to 50,000-years-old and strangely, many of its internal organs are still intact.
- The carcass of the woolly rhino was found on the bank of the Tirekhtyakh river in the Abyisk district.
- Researchers say that it’s among the best-preserved specimens of the Ice Age animal found to date. The woolly rhino was likely three- or four-years-old when it died.
- Woolly rhinos (Coelodonta antiquitatis) are predecessors to the modern-day Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis). They roamed Siberia tens of thousands of years ago.
