An adult bear recovered from the Siberian permafrost in the Lyakhovsky Islands in 2020 is not, as originally thought, around 30,000 years old.
Part of the recovered remains.
Following the new investigation, we know we are looking at its bulkier extant cousin. With a height of 1.55 meters and a weight of 78 kilograms , the animal was thought to have been around 2 to 3 years old when it died of an injury to its spinal column. "This find is absolutely unique: the complete carcass of an ancient brown bear," biologist Maxim Cheprasov, from the North-Eastern Federal University, told"For the first time, a carcass with soft tissues has fallen into the hands of scientists, giving us the opportunity to study the internal organs and examine the brain."as descendants found in the north-east of Russia today, the researchers report.
One mystery the carcass can't solve is how the bear got to the Lyakhovsky Islands, currently separated from the mainland by a 50 kilometer stretch of water. It may have swum across, or it may have walked over a temporary ice bridge. Perhaps at that time the islands were still connected to the rest of Russia. Right now we can only guess., pending a more detailed analysis. Further tests are due to be carried out on the remains to see what else can be gleaned from this fascinating find.
As many parts of the world warm up as the climate changes, we're seeing more and more remains emerge, preserved in the ice over millennia: from
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