Scientists have found two nearly perfectly preserved cave lion cubs from the Ice Age, nicknamed Boris and Sparta, in east Russia.
Ice Age lion cub Sparta was perfectly preserved by Russian permafrost.Two nearly perfectly preserved Ice Age lion cubs were found in Russia, still with whiskers and fur.Researchers said Sparta was probably the best preserved Ice Age animal ever found.
"Sparta is probably the best-preserved Ice Age animal ever found, and is more or less undamaged apart from the fur being a bit ruffled," Love Dalen, a professor in Evolutionary Genetics and author of a new study on the cubs, told CNN. -Centre for Palaeogenetics Cave lions, known as panthera spelaea, roamed Eurasia during the Ice Age before going extinct over 10,000 years ago.
Although they were initially thought to be related, new research has revealed that the cubs were around 15,000 years apart in age. "Given their preservation, they must have been buried very quickly. So maybe they died in a mudslide, or fell into a crack in the permafrost," Dalen told CNN. "Permafrost forms large cracks due to seasonal thawing and freezing."The cubs' coats were similar but not identical to that of an African lion cub, and Sparta had a more dull, greyish coat compared to Boris, according to the team.
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