The exhibition of paleontological finds from Yakutia “Giants of Permafrost” was opened in Hall 31 “Geology” of VDNH in Moscow, the press service of the head of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and the government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) reported. Yakutia) ) reports on May 18.
Yakutia presented paleontological finds of representatives of the mammoth fauna and human bone tools of the Paleolithic. The pavilion features a cryogenic chamber with baby mammoth Yuka and cave lion cubs Boris and Sparta.
It should be noted that more than 70% of the world’s reserves of fossil mammoth bones and other remains of the mammoth fauna are concentrated in Yakutia.
Recall that in 2010 the remains of a teenage female mammoth weighing 106 kilograms were discovered on the southern coast of the Laptev Sea, Ust-Yansky ulus, Yakutia. The height at the withers is 165 cm, the length of the body from the base of the trunk to the base of the tail is about 205 cm, the tail is short, about 9 cm, the weight of a living mammoth could reach 450 -550 kg. . The animal died about 28 thousand years ago, when it was between 6 and 9 years old.
The uniqueness of the find lies in the fact that soft tissues and wool were preserved in the carcass of the mammoth.
Traces of claws and teeth of predators, and even cuts left by ancient people, were found on the animal’s skin.
It is also the first time that scientists have at their disposal such a well-preserved fossil animal brain. In 2013, scientists from the Academy of Sciences of the Sakha Republic, together with Moscow scientists from the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, removed the brain from a skull of mammoth for the purpose of its conservation and subsequent study. Scientists from Russia and Japan managed to partially restore the DNA of the mammoth calf Yuki.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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