{"id":322514,"date":"2021-08-11T22:49:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T19:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/lion-mummy-is-best-preserved-ice-age-animal-ever-found\/"},"modified":"2021-08-11T22:49:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T19:49:19","slug":"lion-mummy-is-best-preserved-ice-age-animal-ever-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/lion-mummy-is-best-preserved-ice-age-animal-ever-found\/","title":{"rendered":"#Lion mummy is ‘best preserved Ice Age animal ever found’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Lion mummy is ‘best preserved Ice Age animal ever found’<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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A 28,000-year-old lion cub mummy was discovered in Siberia \u2014 though it looks like it could have perished just yesterday.<\/p>\n

Nicknamed Sparta, the cat\u2019s golden fur covers a fully intact body with nary a wound or lesion, with eyes shut and claws still sharp, CNN reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The study of Sparta was led by Russian researchers Gennady Boeskorov and Alexey Tikhonov, whose report was just published earlier this month in the journal Quaternary<\/a>, after the female cub\u2019s discovery in 2017 by mammoth tusk hunters near eastern Russia\u2019s Semyuelyakh River. <\/p>\n

Findings on Boris, a male cub found app<\/a>roximately 50 feet from Sparta in 2018, were also included in their current study. <\/p>\n

\"Sparta\"
A 28,000-year-old cave lion cub mummy, named Sparta, is being called the \u201cbest-preserved\u201d animal fossil found from the Ice Age.<\/figcaption>
Love Dal\u00e9n<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Originally presumed to be related, radio-carbon dating later revealed that the two cubs, both between 1 and 2 months old when they died, arrived at their shared final resting place on vastly different timelines. Boris, they found, is approximately 43,000 years old.<\/p>\n

But the spotlight is on Sparta. <\/p>\n

\u201cSparta is probably the best-preserved Ice Age animal ever found and is more or less undamaged apart from the fur being a bit ruffled. She even had the whiskers preserved. Boris is a bit more damaged, but still pretty good,\u201d said Swedish researcher Love Dal\u00e9n, of the Center for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm, who co-authored the international study.<\/p>\n

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Sparta was unearthed in 2017 by mammoth ivory miners on the banks of the Semyuelyakh River in eastern Siberia.<\/figcaption>
Love Dal\u00e9n<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Neither Sparta nor Boris are thought to have been killed by a predator. However, various skeletal damage was noted in computed tomography scans. Dal\u00e9n told CNN, \u201cGiven their preservation, they must have been buried very quickly. So maybe they died in a mudslide, or fell into a crack in the permafrost.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two cubs represent an ancient species called cave lions that roamed the harsh tundras of the Northern Hemisphere during the Ice Age. Known to grow slightly larger than today\u2019s African lion, little is known about how these big cats survived such an extreme habitat.<\/p>\n

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Sparta and her co-study specimen Boris, an unrelated cave lion cub found nearby, were thought to have died by collapsing into a crack in the permafrost, remaining preserved for thousands of years. <\/figcaption>
Quaternary<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sparta\u2019s discovery was predated by the news<\/a> of Dogor, an 18,000-year-old canine puppy also from the Yakutsk region in Siberia, whose remains were similarly intact and well-preserved. But despite its pristine mummification its true identity has continued to elude scientists: Is it a wolf or a dog?<\/p>\n

Dal\u00e9n predicts more discoveries like this will be made in the near future, pointing to climate change as well as \u201cincreased demand for mammoth ivory\u201d as the source.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are definitely more finds being made these days,\u201d said Dal\u00e9n.<\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Lion mummy is ‘best preserved Ice Age animal ever found’” A 28,000-year-old lion cub mummy was discovered in Siberia \u2014 though it looks like it could have perished just yesterday. Nicknamed Sparta, the cat\u2019s golden fur covers a fully intact body with nary a wound or lesion, with eyes shut and claws still sharp, CNN…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":322515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/frozen-cave-lion-cub-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[113932,50339,74251,4975,72234],"class_list":["post-322514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-8-11-21","tag-lions","tag-mummies","tag-russia","tag-siberia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}