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Scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences continue to study young cave lions, mummies which were found two years ago in the Abyysky district of Yakutia.
The experts thoroughly examined the condition of the mummies of the two cubs Uana and Dina find out that a mistake in determination of their age. Previously, scientists believed that the cubs were a few weeks when they died. However, after opening and examining the contents of their stomachs revealed that the mother abandoned babies almost immediately after birth.
Maybe she didn’t want to leave them, but the accident snapped her from her offspring. Unfortunately, it is difficult to reconstruct the events that 55 000 years.
“At first we thought that they two or three weeks old. But now we believe that the children lived one to two days. They didn’t even have time to try the mother’s milk,” said Dr albert Protopopov, head of the Department of mammoth fauna of the Yakut branch of Russian Academy of Sciences.
DNA of two cave lions, scientists hope, will help to revive an extinct species in the laboratory, just as in “Jurassic Park”, but it will happen soon.
While the science is insufficiently aware of the characteristics of the habitat of these animals. Found in the fall of 2017 in Eastern Siberia, a cave lion cub — real hope for science. Unlike Uana and Dina, “September” lion is not like the ice monolith. Research new mummy has prompted scientists some information about the appearance of ancient predators: the cave lions had a gray, smoky fur and resembled a cross between a lion and a tiger.
Despite the name they lived not in caves, preferring open spaces. Occupied the territory from Britain to the East of modern Russia, met in Alaska and Northwest Canada.
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